And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:

Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me: