Then tell Pharaoh that this is what the LORD says: ‘Israel is My firstborn son,
When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.
the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of th
in joyful assembly, to the congregation of the firstborn, enrolled in heaven. You have come to God the Judge of all, to
They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters,
Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—fo
You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,
Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father;
But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.