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Exodus 13 tells Israel to remember the day God brought them out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Jeremiah says a new, future exodus from the north will be so great that people will swear by it instead of by the exodus from Egypt.
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Exodus 13:3
Hebrew Bible
2 “Set apart to me every firstborn male—the first offspring of every womb among the Israelites, whether human or animal; it is mine.” 3 Moses said to the people, “Remember this day on which you came out from Egypt, from the place where you were enslaved, for the Lord brought you out of there with a mighty hand—and no bread made with yeast may be eaten. 4 On this day, in the month of Abib, you are going out.
Jeremiah 16:14
Hebrew Bible
13 So I will throw you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your ancestors have ever known. There you must worship other gods day and night, for I will show you no mercy.’ 14 “Yet I, the Lord, say: ‘A new time will certainly come. People now affirm their oaths with “I swear as surely as the Lord lives who delivered the people of Israel out of Egypt.” 15 But in that time they will affirm them with “I swear as surely as the Lord lives who delivered the people of Israel from the land of the north and from all the other lands where he had banished them.” At that time I will bring them back to the land I gave their ancestors.
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... There is, then, a principle of escalation in the prophecies of a second exodus, for the second exodus must transcend the first if there is to be any real hope. The new exodus, so the prophets proclaimed, would far surpass the historical exodus out of Egypt. Jeremiah, for instance, cried out: “Behold, the days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when it will no longer be said, As Yahweh lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt, but As Yahweh lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them.’ … I will cause them to know my hand and my might, and they will know that my name is Yahweh.” (Jeremiah 16:14-15, 21). The second exodus will so far exceed the wonders of the old exodus that even the exodus-defined name “Yahweh” will call to mind the second exodus rather than the first. ...
Morales, L. Michael
Exodus Old and New: A Biblical Theology of Redemption
(p. 168) IVP Academic, 2020
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