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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

1 Peter 1:2 → Exodus 24:3-8

Allusion

Later text

1 Peter 1:2BSB

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.

Earlier text

Exodus 24:3-8BSB

When Moses came and told the people all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all responded with one voice: "All the words that the LORD has spoken, we will do." And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. Early the next morning he got up and built an altar at the base of the mountain, along with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel. Then he sent out some young men of Israel, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as peace offerings to the LORD. Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he sprinkled on the altar. Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people, who replied, "All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient." 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 square13:40

Significance

Peter's triad — "chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling by the blood of Jesus Christ" (eis hypakoēn kai rhantismon haimatos Iēsou Christou) — echoes the Sinai covenant ceremony of Exodus 24:3-8, where Moses sprinkled (rhantizō in LXX) the blood of the covenant on the people after they pledged obedience. The verbal parallel of "sprinkling of blood" + "obedience" in both texts is striking. At Sinai, the blood ratified the covenant and the people's commitment to obey; Peter applies this pattern to Christ's blood, which ratifies the new covenant and effects the sanctification that enables genuine obedience. The typological escalation is clear: animal blood gave way to the blood of Christ, and external sprinkling yields to inward transformation by the Spirit.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Typology (Direct Type, Backward-Looking) + Longitudinal Theme

▸ The Blood of the Covenant

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Anchor Texts 1

Exodus 24:8 — The Blood of the Covenant

1 Peter 1:2 → Exodus 24:3-8

Significance

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