Exodus 34:27–35, they’d read Jeremiah 31:32–39, about God making a new covenant with his people: This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. (Jer. 31:33) When they read Leviticus 12–13, about purification after childbirth, they’d read Isaiah 9:6: For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting
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