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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 5:1 → Numbers 2:3

Echo

Later text

Numbers 5:1BSB

Then the LORD said to Moses,

Earlier text

Numbers 2:3BSB

On the east side, toward the sunrise, the divisions of Judah are to camp under their standard: The leader of the descendants of Judah is Nahshon son of Amminadab,

Significance

Numbers 2:3ff details the tribes' specific camping positions around the tabernacle, beginning with Judah on the east. Numbers 5:1-4 legislates that the unclean must be expelled from this ordered camp because God dwells in its midst. The connection between the camp arrangement and the purity expulsion shows that Israel's spatial organization has theological significance: the closer one is to the tabernacle, the higher the required level of holiness. Impure persons are sent outside the entire camp perimeter, creating concentric zones of sanctity radiating outward from God's dwelling -- a spatial theology that the unclean-person expulsion of Numbers 5 enforces.

Found via: John Gill, Exposition of the Entire Bible (1763)
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme