Exodus 4:22

¹“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

⁴who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

²³to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

⁹They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

¹You are the children of the LORD your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

⁵Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine; ⁶and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”

⁸But now, LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

¹⁶For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, LORD, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.

¹⁸I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

¹⁸Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.