I will put my dwelling place among you, and I will not abhor you. The most fundamental blessing — the divine presence among the covenant community: I will put my dwelling place among you. The tabernacle that the entire book of Leviticus has been regulating is the covenant dwelling that this verse promises to maintain. I will not abhor you communicates the positive character of the covenant relationship: not merely the absence of divine rejection but the active divine acceptance that the dwelling represents. The God who dwells among the covenant community is the God who finds them acceptable.

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