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Now that you have tasted KI TOV Hashem ("that the L-rd is good," TEHILLIM 34:9).

Come to him [Moshiach], to that "Even Chayyah" ("Living Stone"), CHADAL ISHIM ("rejected by men" YESHAYAH 53:3; TEHILLIM 118:22; YESHAYAH 28:16) but BECHIR ("Chosen" YESHAYAH 42:1 [1:1]), and precious in the sight of Hashem.

You also, like avanim chayyot (living stones [2:24]), are being built up for a Bayit Ruchani (a Spiritual Beis, House) for a kehunnat kodesh (holy priesthood) to offer up zivchei ruach (sacrifices of the spirit) acceptable to Hashem through Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua.

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now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.(A)

The Living Stone and a Chosen People

As you come to him, the living Stone(B)—rejected by humans but chosen by God(C) and precious to him— you also, like living stones, are being built(D) into a spiritual house[a](E) to be a holy priesthood,(F) offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 2:5 Or into a temple of the Spirit