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

Judah’s Marital Unfaithfulness

¹⁰ Don’t all of us have one Father?^(A) Didn’t one God create us?^(B) Why then do we act treacherously against one another,^(C) profaning^(D) the covenant of our ancestors?^(E)

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)