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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Hebrews 13:11 → Leviticus 16:27

Allusion

Later text

Hebrews 13:11BSB

Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp.

Earlier text

Leviticus 16:27BSB

The bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the camp; and their hides, flesh, and dung must be burned up.

+ 3 more earlier texts

Earlier text

Leviticus 4:12, 21BSB

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Earlier text

9:11BSB

But he burned up the flesh and the hide outside the camp.

Earlier text

Exodus 29:14BSB

But burn the flesh of the bull and its hide and dung outside the camp; it is a sin offering.

Significance

Day of Atonement sacrifices burned "outside the camp." Typological: Christ suffered "outside the city gate" of Jerusalem (13:12). Believers called to "go to Him outside the camp" (13:13), bearing reproach. Solidarity with Christ in his rejection. The typological move is powerful—just as sin offering bodies were taken outside the camp (place of uncleanness), so Jesus suffered outside Jerusalem's gate. Believers are therefore called to "go to Him outside the camp," willing to bear the reproach he bore. This "outside" location represents rejection by the religious establishment, but also identification with Christ's atoning death. The exhortation relativizes earthly attachments—"here we do not have a permanent city" (13:14)—and calls for pilgrim identity bearing Christ's shame while seeking the city to come.

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

▸ The Day of Atonement

Linked Mentions 9

Trajectory Tables 8

Anchor Texts 1

Leviticus 16 — The Day of Atonement

Hebrews 13:11 → Leviticus 16:27

Significance

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