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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Leviticus 26:40-42 → Exodus 2:24

Allusion

Later text

Leviticus 26:40-42BSB

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— and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity, then I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.

Earlier text

Exodus 2:24BSB

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

Significance

Exodus 2:24 records that "God remembered His covenant (בְּרִיתוֹ, berito) with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob," triggering the exodus deliverance. Leviticus 26:40-42 promises that after exile and judgment, "I will remember My covenant with Jacob... with Isaac... and with Abraham" (וְזָכַרְתִּי אֶת־בְּרִיתִי, vezakharti et-beriti). Both texts use the same phrase—God "remembering" (זָכַר, zakhar) His covenant with the patriarchs—as the pivot point for divine intervention. The Leviticus passage anticipates a future repetition of the Exodus 2 pattern: when Israel finds itself in bondage again (exile), covenant remembrance will once again activate God's delivering power, provided the people confess their iniquity and humble their uncircumcised hearts.

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