TSK · Exodus 4:22

Now 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;

Do you thus requite Yahweh, foolish people and unwise? Isn't he your father who has bought you? He has made you, and established you.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.

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

"A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, 'How have we despised your name?'

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,' says the Lord Almighty."

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.