All shall know me. “They shall not teach every man his fellow-citizen, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest of them” (v. 11). Under the old, the individuals were physically born into the family of God’s people, of whom all males were circumcised on the eighth day, and later were taught to know Him. Under the new, it is different in that they must be taught first and then of their own volition enter into covenant relationship with
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