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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Numbers 9:1 → Exodus 12:48

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 12:48BSB

If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD's Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.

Significance

Exodus 12:48 establishes the rule for foreigners participating in Passover: "If a stranger dwells with you and wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, every male in his household must be circumcised." Numbers 9:14 reaffirms this provision: "If a foreigner residing among you wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, he must do so according to the statute and ordinance of the Passover. You shall have one statute for the foreigner and the native." Both texts share the principle that Passover participation is open to non-Israelites on the condition of circumcision and full compliance with the Passover statute -- one law (חֻקָּה אַחַת, chuqqah 'achat) governs both native and sojourner.

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

▸ The Passover

Linked Mentions 2

Trajectory Tables 1

New Exodus (Second Exodus Pattern) Trajectory Table

Anchor Texts 1

Exodus 12 — The Passover

Numbers 9:1 → Exodus 12:48

Significance

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