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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

Leviticus 17:15 → Exodus 22:31

Allusion

Later text

Leviticus 17:15BSB

And any person, whether native or foreigner, who eats anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening; then he will be clean.

Earlier text

Exodus 22:31BSB

You are to be My holy people. You must not eat the meat of a mauled animal found in the field; you are to throw it to the dogs.

Significance

Exodus 22:31 commands Israel as "holy men" (אַנְשֵׁי קֹדֶשׁ, anshey qodesh) not to eat flesh torn by beasts in the field (טְרֵפָה, terefah), instead throwing it to the dogs. Leviticus 17:15 addresses the related case of eating "anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts" (נְבֵלָה וּטְרֵפָה, nevelah utrefah), prescribing that anyone who eats such meat—whether native or foreigner—must wash his clothes, bathe, and remain unclean until evening. The Levitical legislation is less absolute than Exodus's outright prohibition: Leviticus treats the consumption as producing ritual impurity requiring purification rather than as absolutely forbidden. Both texts ground the prohibition in holiness, but Leviticus provides a remediation procedure for violations.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the holiness rule against eating torn flesh develops from Exodus's absolute prohibition grounded in Israel's identity ("You are to be My holy people") to Leviticus's administered case law, which adds the purification remedy for the one who eats; the single principle unfolds into pastoral procedure