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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.

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Intertextuality Pair

Exodus 34:22-24 → Exodus 23:14-17

Quotation

Later text

Exodus 34:22-24BSB

And you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year. Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel. For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the LORD your God.

Earlier text

Exodus 23:14-17BSB

Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me. You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, because that was the month you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before Me empty-handed. You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field. Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD.

Significance

Exodus 34:22-24 restates the three pilgrimage festival requirements first given in Exodus 23:14-17, including the Feast of Weeks (חַג שָׁבֻעֹת, chag shavu'ot) and the Feast of Ingathering (חַג הָאָסִף, chag ha'asif). Both texts require "three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD" (שָׁלֹשׁ פְּעָמִים בַּשָּׁנָה, shalosh pe'amim bashanah). The repetition is significant because it occurs in the context of covenant renewal after the golden calf incident (Exodus 32-34), reaffirming that the worship calendar remains unchanged despite Israel's apostasy. Exodus 34:24 adds a new divine promise absent from ch. 23: "no one will covet your land" during the pilgrimages, providing additional assurance for obedience.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the covenant-renewal restatement of the three pilgrimage feasts: 34:22-24 repeats 23:14-17 nearly verbatim after the apostasy of the calf, and advances it with a new promise ("no one will covet your land"), grace restoring and enlarging the worship charter for a people just forgiven