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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
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Intertextuality Pair

Acts 10:12 → Genesis 6:20

Allusion

Later text

Acts 10:12BSB

It contained all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth, as well as birds of the air.

Earlier text

Genesis 6:20BSB

Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.

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Earlier text

Genesis 1:24BSB

And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land crawlers, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds." And it was so.

Earlier text

Genesis 9:2BSB

The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:41

Significance

Peter's vision gathers "all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth, as well as birds of the air" (Acts 10:12) — the very taxonomy of the creation and flood narratives, where the creatures come to Noah "to be kept alive" according to their kinds (Genesis 6:20; cf. 1:24; 9:2). But where those texts and the Levitical code that followed divided the animals into clean and unclean, the sheet lowered from heaven presents them together and undivided, and the voice commands Peter to kill and eat without distinction. The connection is one of contrast within continuity: the same creatures God once sorted and preserved He now declares clean together, signaling that the dietary boundary which had walled Israel off from the nations has reached its appointed end. The vision is not finally about food but about people — God shows Peter that he should call no man impure or unclean (Acts 10:28) — as the wall of holiness that guarded the covenant people opens to embrace the Gentiles in Christ.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Contrast