²² And you will say to Pharaoh: This is what the Lord 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. Look, I am about to kill your firstborn son!” ^(B)

The Lord’s Love for Israel

Disobedience of the Priests

⁶ “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of me?^(A) says the Lord of Armies to you priests, who despise my name.”

Yet you ask, “How have we despised your name?”

⁴¹ You’re doing what your father does.”^(A)

“We weren’t born^(B) of sexual immorality,”^(C) they said. “We have one Father—God.”^(D)