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be their God (Ezek. 37 :23). In the pre ceding chapter Ezek. 36 :25-27, He had al ready said, "I will sprinkle clean water upon you and ye shall be clean; from all your filthiness and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my ordinances, and do them. . . . . And I will save you from all your uncleannesses ; and I will call for the grain and multiply it, and lay no famine upon you." The same thought is expressed in other words through_the Prophet Jeremiah where we read, ''Behold, the days come, saith J eho vah, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah; not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the band to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was a husband unto them, saith Jehovah. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith Jehovah: . I will put my
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