Exodus 4:22

You must say to Pharaoh, 'This is what Yahweh says: Israel is my son, my firstborn,

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In The King James Version

And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:

In Context

21Yahweh said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, and he will not let the people go.

23and I say to you, “Let my son go, so he may worship me.” But since you have refused to let him go, I will certainly kill your son, your firstborn.'”

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Cross References

Exodus 19:5Now then, if you obediently listen to my voice and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession from among all peoples, for all the earth is mine.

Deuteronomy 32:6Do you reward Yahweh in this way, 1 you foolish and senseless people? 1 Is he not your father, the one who has created you? 1 He made you and established you. 1

Isaiah 64:8Yet, Yahweh, you are our father; 1 we are the clay. You are our potter; and we all are the work of your hand. 1

Jeremiah 31:9They will come weeping; I will lead them as they make their pleas. I will have them journey to streams of water 1 on a straight road. They will not stumble on it, for I will be a father to Israel, 1 and Ephraim will be my firstborn.” 1

Malachi 1:6“A son honors his father, and a servant honors his master. If I, then, am a father, where is my honor? If I am a master, where is the reverence for me?” says Yahweh of hosts to you priests, who despise my name. “But you say, 'How have we despised your name?'

2 Corinthians 6:18I will be a Father to you, 1 and you will be my sons and daughters,” says the Lord Almighty.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 4:19-24

Moses Returns in Egypt. ( b. c. 1491.) 18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace. 19 And the Lord said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life. 20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his… Read the whole commentary →

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