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Why did God say He wanted to dwell among His people?

Part of a series: questions that make more sense when the Tanakh and the New Testament are read together.

Exodus 25:8 gives the reason for the whole tabernacle project in one line: “let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.” John opens his gospel with the same verb: the Word “became flesh and dwelt among us” (John 1:14) — the Greek literally “tabernacled.”

What's the connection between God's stated desire in Exodus and John's claim about Yeshua?

  • Exodus 25:8
  • John 1:14

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