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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

Deuteronomy 12:2 → Exodus 20:24

Allusion

Later text

Deuteronomy 12:2BSB

Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.

Earlier text

Exodus 20:24BSB

You are to make for Me an altar of earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats and cattle. In every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.

Significance

Exodus 20:24 allows altar construction wherever God causes His name to be remembered, while Deuteronomy 12:2 commands Israel to destroy all Canaanite worship sites and seek "the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name" (12:5; לָשׂוּם אֶת שְׁמוֹ שָׁם, lasum et shemo sham, "to put His name there"). Both texts are concerned with the connection between God's name and worship location, but Deuteronomy restricts what Exodus left open. The phrase "the place" (הַמָּקוֹם, hamaqom) becomes a technical term in Deuteronomy for the centralized sanctuary, replacing the multiple "places" (plural) permitted in the altar law with a single divinely chosen site that would eventually be identified as Jerusalem.

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

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Deuteronomy 12:2 → Exodus 20:24

Significance

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