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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

Numbers 15:18 → Exodus 23:19

Allusion

Later text

Numbers 15:18BSB

"Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land to which I am bringing you

Earlier text

Exodus 23:19BSB

Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.

Significance

Numbers 15:18 introduces the offering of firstfruits from dough upon entering the promised land, while Exodus 23:19 commands "Bring the best of the firstfruits (רֵאשִׁית בִּכּוּרֵי, reshit bikkurey) of your soil to the house of the LORD your God." Both texts legislate the principle that the first portion of the land's produce belongs to God, but Numbers specifies dough (עֲרִיסָה, 'arisah) rather than raw agricultural produce. The Numbers legislation presupposes settlement in the land ("when you enter the land to which I am bringing you"), showing confidence in the promise even during wilderness wandering after the spy rebellion of the immediately preceding chapters.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — Exodus 23:19's firstfruits command and Numbers 15:18's dough-offering law legislate the same first-portion-to-God principle, one strand of the firstfruits theme that runs through the canon to its culmination in Christ the firstfruits (1 Corinthians 15:20).

Linked Mentions 1

Trajectory Tables 1

First Fruits Trajectory Table