Verse 22
Exodus 4:22
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
22
And thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Israel is my son, my firstborn.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/אָמַרְתָּ֖ אֶל פַּרְעֹ֑ה כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה בְּנִ֥/י בְכֹרִ֖/י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל
English Translation
And you shall say to Pharaoh, "Thus says the Lord, 'Israel is my firstborn.'"
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Chapter 4 Context
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Moses answered and said: They will not believe me, nor hear my voice, but they will say: The Lord ha...
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Then he said to him: What is that thou holdest in thy hand? He answered: A rod.
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And the Lord said: Cast it down upon the ground. He cast it down, and it was turned into a serpent:...
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And the Lord said: Put out thy hand and take it by the tail. He put forth his hand, and took hold of...
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That they may believe, saith he, that the Lord God (Elohim) of their fathers, the God (Elohim) of Ab...
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And the Lord said again: Put thy hand into thy bosom. And when he had put it into his bosom, he brou...
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And he said: Put back thy hand into thy bosom. He put it back, and brought it out again, and it was...
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If they will not believe thee, saith he, nor hear the voice of the former sign, they will believe th...
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But if they will not even believe these two signs, nor hear thy voice: take of the river water, and...
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10
Moses said: I beseech thee, Lord. I am not eloquent from yesterday and the day before: and since tho...
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The Lord said to him: Who made man's mouth? or who made the dumb and the deaf, the seeing and the bl...
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Go therefore and I will be in thy mouth: and I will teach thee what thou shalt speak.
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But he said: I beseech thee, Lord send whom thou wilt send.
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The Lord being angry at Moses, said Aaron the Levite is thy brother, I know that he is eloquent: beh...
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Speak to him, and put my words in his mouth: and I will be in thy mouth, and in his mouth, and will...
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He shall speak in thy stead to the people, and shall be thy mouth: but thou shalt be to him in those...
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And take this rod in thy hand, wherewith thou shalt do the signs.
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Moses went his way, and returned to Jethro his father in law and said to him: I will go and return t...
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And the Lord said to Moses, in Madian: Go, and return into Egypt: for they are all dead that sought...
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Moses therefore took his wife, and his sons, and set them upon an ass: and returned into Egypt, carr...
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And the Lord said to him as he was returning into Egypt: See that thou do all the wonders before Pha...
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And thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Israel is my son, my firstborn.
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I have said to thee: Let my son go, that he may serve me, and thou wouldst not let him go: behold I...
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And when he was in his journey, in the inn, the Lord met him, and would have killed him.
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Immediately Sephora took a very sharp stone, and circumcised the fore skin of her son, and touched h...
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And he let him go after she had said A bloody spouse art thou to me, because of the circumcision.
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And the Lord said to Aaron: Go into the desert to meet Moses. And he went forth to meet him in the m...
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And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord, by which he had sent him, and the signs that he had...
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And they came together, and they assembled all the ancients of the children of Israel.
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And Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had said to Moses: and he wrought the signs before the...
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And the people believed. And they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel: and that h...
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