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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

Leviticus 26:40 → Exodus 2:24

Echo

Later text

Leviticus 26:40BSB

But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—

Earlier text

Exodus 2:24BSB

So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Significance

Exodus 2:24 describes God hearing Israel's groaning in Egyptian bondage and "remembering" His covenant, while Leviticus 26:40 envisions a future scenario where exiled Israelites must "confess their iniquity and that of their fathers" and humble their "uncircumcised hearts" (לְבָבָם הֶעָרֵל, levavam he'arel). The connection lies in the conditions for divine intervention: in Exodus, God's covenant remembrance is initiated by Israel's cry of suffering; in Leviticus, it requires conscious confession and heart-humility. Leviticus thus develops the Exodus pattern by specifying the human response that precedes the divine remembrance that leads to deliverance.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — covenant remembrance (זָכַר בְּרִית): God "remembered His covenant" when Israel groaned in Egypt, and Leviticus 26:40-42 promises the same remembering ("I will remember My covenant with Jacob") for the exile generation that confesses and humbles itself — one thread of remembrance spanning bondage and exile