Exodus 4:22-23
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22 Then you will say to Pharaoh: This is what Yahweh says: Israel is My firstborn son.(A) 23 I told you: Let My son go so that he may worship Me, but you refused to let him go. Now I will kill your firstborn son!”(B)
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Deuteronomy 32:5-6
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5 His people have acted corruptly toward Him;
this is their defect[a]—they are not His children
but a devious and crooked generation.
6 Is this how you repay the Lord,
you foolish and senseless people?
Isn’t He your Father and Creator?
Didn’t He make you and sustain you?
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 32:5 Or Him; through their fault; Hb obscure
Deuteronomy 32:18-20
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18 You ignored the Rock who gave you birth;
you forgot the God who gave birth to you.
19 When the Lord saw this, He despised them,
provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.
20 He said: “I will hide My face from them;
I will see what will become of them,
for they are a perverse generation—
unfaithful children.
Psalm 103:13
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13 As a father has compassion on his children,
so the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.(A)
Jeremiah 3:19
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True Repentance
19 I thought: How I long to make you My sons
and give you a desirable land,
the most beautiful inheritance(A) of all the nations.
I thought: You will call Me, my Father,
and never turn away from Me.
Hosea 1:10
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10 [a]Yet the number of the Israelites
will be like the sand of the sea,(A)
which cannot be measured or counted.
And in the place where they were told:
You are not My people,
they will be called: Sons of the living God.(B)
Footnotes
- Hosea 1:10 Hs 2:1 in Hb
Matthew 2:15
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15 He stayed there until Herod’s death, so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet might be fulfilled: Out of Egypt I called My Son.(A)[a]
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