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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 → Leviticus 23:10

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

Leviticus 23:10BSB

"Speak to the Israelites and say, 'When you enter the land that I am giving you and you reap its harvest, you are to bring to the priest a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest.

Significance

Both texts regulate firstfruits offerings contingent on entering the promised land. Leviticus 23:10 commands: "When you enter the land I am going to give you and you reap its harvest, bring to the priest a sheaf of the first grain you harvest." Numbers 15:18 similarly opens with "When you enter the land to which I am bringing you," then requires an offering from the first dough. The shared introductory formula כִּי תָבֹאוּ אֶל הָאָרֶץ (ki tavo'u 'el ha'arets, "when you enter the land") ties both laws to the promise of possession, while the different produce -- raw sheaf (Leviticus) versus processed dough (Numbers) -- shows two complementary aspects of dedicating the land's bounty to God.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — both laws, opened by the identical formula "When you enter the land" (כִּי תָבֹאוּ אֶל הָאָרֶץ), are parallel installments of the canon-wide firstfruits motif (sheaf and dough as complementary dedications of the land's bounty), the theme that runs forward to Christ as "the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep" (1 Corinthians 15:20).

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