 To be in covenant, you're part of Israel. That's why Paul writes in Ephesians, hey, before you were saved, you were formerly Gentiles, but now you're in covenant, you're part of Israel in the commonwealth. And so Ephraim became a Gentile. And so to redeem Ephraim, the wild olive branch, who was now a Gentile, the Messiah came, the Lamb of God, to die as the Passover Lamb, to redeem the firstborn of God, to bring them back into covenant,