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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 → Leviticus 23:5

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

Leviticus 23:5BSB

The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Significance

Leviticus 23:5 places Passover within Israel's comprehensive liturgical calendar: "In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, is the LORD's Passover" (פֶּסַח לַיהוָה, pesach la-YHWH). Numbers 9:1-5 records the first observance of this calendar date in the wilderness. Both texts use identical timing language ("the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight"), confirming the synchronization between Leviticus's festal calendar and Numbers's narrative implementation. Together they establish that Passover is simultaneously a historical commemoration (Numbers links it to the exodus) and a fixed festival in God's appointed times (מוֹעֲדֵי יְהוָה, mo'adey YHWH) as defined by Leviticus. The subsequent case of the corpse-defiled men unable to keep the appointed day (Num 9:6-14) shows that even a fixed festal calendar required ongoing divine adjudication when practical circumstance intervened.

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