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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
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

Acts 7:21 → Exodus 2:5

Allusion

Later text

Acts 7:21BSB

When he was set outside, Pharaoh’s daughter took him and brought him up as her own son.

Earlier text

Exodus 2:5BSB

Soon the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the Nile, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. And when she saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maidservant to retrieve it.

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Earlier text

Exodus 2:10BSB

When the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and explained, "I drew him out of the water."

Walk the Square · this video walks Acts 7:17-22 as a whole, from Acts 7.20 → Exodus 2.213:57

Significance

"When he was set outside, Pharaoh's daughter took him and brought him up as her own son" (Acts 7:21; Exodus 2:5-10). Stephen notes the irony that God preserved Israel's deliverer inside the household of the very king who sought his death, nursed at Egypt's own table for Israel's future rescue. The exposed and adopted child, drawn out of the water, becomes the instrument God will use to draw his people out of Egypt. God's rescuing purpose runs hidden through the schemes of the oppressor — the same sovereign irony by which the Deliverer of all his people would be preserved as a refugee in Egypt (Matthew 2:13-15) and would accomplish redemption through the very hands that opposed him.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression