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Hebrew poems built on the alphabet, letter by letter: a structure the English page hides and the Hebrew page announces.

A lamb without blemish, blood on the doorposts, judgment passing over the house: Israel's founding night and the calendar of the cross.

God binding himself by oath: the legal spine the whole Bible is built on, cut in blood and never revoked.

Law written on hearts, sins remembered no more: promised to Israel by Jeremiah, ratified in a cup on the night of betrayal.

The dynasty God swore would never lack a man on the throne: a promise the New Testament opens by tracing.