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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 9:1 → Exodus 12:46

Allusion

Later text

Numbers 9:1BSB

In the first month of the second year after Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai:

Earlier text

Exodus 12:46BSB

It must be eaten inside one house. You are not to take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of the bones.

Significance

Exodus 12:46 commands: "It must be eaten inside one house... and you may not break any of the bones." Numbers 9:12 reiterates this rule for the wilderness Passover: "they may not leave any of it until morning or break any of its bones. They must observe the Passover according to all its statutes." The Numbers repetition of the bone-breaking prohibition confirms it as a permanent Passover ordinance, not merely a circumstantial rule for the Egyptian night. The shared requirement not to break the lamb's bones (לֹא יִשְׁבְּרוּ בוֹ עֶצֶם, lo' yishberu vo 'etsem) links both texts to the integrity of the sacrificial animal as a whole offering.

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

▸ The Passover

Linked Mentions 3

Trajectory Tables 2

Anchor Texts 1

Exodus 12 — The Passover

Numbers 9:1 → Exodus 12:46

Significance

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