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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

Exodus 16:30 → Genesis 2:2

Allusion

Later text

Exodus 16:30BSB

So the people rested on the seventh day.

Earlier text

Genesis 2:2BSB

And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.

Significance

Exodus 16:30 describes Israel resting (שָׁבַת, shavat) on the seventh day in the wilderness, and Genesis 2:2 provides the paradigmatic basis: on the seventh day God "rested from all His work" (וַיִּשְׁבֹּת בַּיּוֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִי, vayyishbot bayyom hashevi'i). The shared root שׁ-ב-ת explicitly connects Israel's manna-gathering rhythm to the creation order—the people's cessation from labor on the seventh day imitates the divine pattern established at the world's foundation. This creation-grounded Sabbath appears in the wilderness before Sinai, demonstrating that the Sabbath principle preceded its formal codification in the Decalogue.

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

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Exodus 16:30 → Genesis 2:2

Significance

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