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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 12:8

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 12:8BSB

They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

Significance

Exodus 12:8 prescribes how the Passover lamb is to be eaten: "roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs." Numbers 9:1-5 records Israel keeping the first anniversary Passover in the wilderness "just as the LORD had commanded Moses." The Numbers text confirms that the specific culinary instructions of Exodus 12:8 -- roasting (not boiling), unleavened bread (מַצּוֹת, matsot), and bitter herbs (מְרֹרִים, merorim) -- were maintained as binding elements of the annual observance, not merely as features of the original Egyptian Passover night.

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

▸ The Passover

Linked Mentions 4

Trajectory Tables 3

Anchor Texts 1

Exodus 12 — The Passover

Numbers 9:1 → Exodus 12:8

Significance

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