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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Deuteronomy 14:22 → Numbers 18:21

Allusion

Later text

Deuteronomy 14:22BSB

You must be sure to set aside a tenth of all the produce brought forth each year from your fields.

Earlier text

Numbers 18:21BSB

Behold, I have given to the Levites all the tithes in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work they do, the service of the Tent of Meeting.

Significance

Numbers 18:21 assigns all tithes (מַעֲשֵׂר, ma'aser) to the Levites as their inheritance in exchange for tabernacle service. Deuteronomy 14:22 legislates tithing with a different emphasis: "You must be sure to set aside a tenth of all the produce brought forth each year from your fields." While Numbers directs the tithe to Levitical support, Deuteronomy adds a celebratory dimension -- the tithe is eaten in God's presence at the central sanctuary as an act of joyful worship. Deuteronomy also adds provision for the third-year tithe to be shared with the Levite, the foreigner, the orphan, and the widow (Deut 14:28-29), expanding the tithe's beneficiaries beyond the purely cultic sphere.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — two complementary stations of the developing tithe institution: Numbers 18:21 assigns the tenth to the Levites as their inheritance-wage for Tent service, while Deuteronomy 14:22 directs it to a feast of joyful fear before the LORD with the Levite still not neglected (Deut 14:27) — one consecrated-tenth theme, cultic funding and covenant celebration, running through the canon from Abraham's tenth to Melchizedek (Gen 14:20) onward.