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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

Hebrews 9:20 → Exodus 24:8

Quotation

Later text

Hebrews 9:20BSB

saying, “This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep.”

Earlier text

Exodus 24:8BSB

So Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, "This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words."

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square8:59

Significance

Moses sprinkled blood to inaugurate old covenant. Demonstrates covenants established by blood sacrifice. Author adds elements from Exodus 12:22; Leviticus 14:4-7; Numbers 19:6, 18 (water, scarlet wool, hyssop) to show ceremonial sprinkling pattern. Parallels Christ's words at Last Supper establishing new covenant in his blood. The typological pattern: blood ratified the first covenant, therefore blood (Christ's superior blood) ratifies the new. "without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness" (9:22) becomes the theological principle undergirding the necessity of Christ's sacrifice.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Typology + Longitudinal Theme

▸ The Blood of the Covenant

Linked Mentions 11

Intertextuality Pairs 2

Trajectory Tables 8

Anchor Texts 1

Exodus 24:8 — The Blood of the Covenant

Hebrews 9:20 → Exodus 24:8

Significance

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