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 honours his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is my honour? 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)