The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people died. Three thousand executed for the golden calf. Acts 2:41 records three thousand added to the church at Pentecost. The parallel is not accidental: the same number killed under the old covenant's judgment is the same number added under the new covenant's gift. What the law killed for violation, grace gives freely to all who believe. The reversal is exact and deliberate — the shadow of death at Sinai becomes the shadow of life at Pentecost, same number, same mountain moment, opposite direction.

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