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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 2:6

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 2:6BSB

When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the little boy was crying. So she had compassion on him and said, "This is one of the Hebrew children."

Significance

Exodus 2:6 describes Pharaoh's daughter seeing the crying Hebrew baby and having compassion, an act of mercy toward a child of the oppressed people. Leviticus 26:40 addresses a future generation in exile, requiring confession of iniquity and humbling of "uncircumcised hearts" (לְבָבָם הֶעָרֵל, levavam he'arel) before God will act. The connection between these texts lies in the human heart's posture before deliverance: Pharaoh's daughter's compassionate heart foreshadows the humble, circumcised heart that Leviticus requires of exiled Israel. Both passages presuppose that divine deliverance is mediated through a heart softened—whether by compassion in the case of a pagan princess or by repentance in the case of covenant Israel.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — compassion preceding deliverance: the pity stirred by the crying Hebrew child (Exod 2:6) opens the deliverance narrative that climaxes in God's covenant remembrance (Exod 2:24-25), the same pattern Leviticus 26:40-42 promises for the exile — humbled, confessing hearts met by the God who remembers His covenant