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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 15:19 → Leviticus 22:22

Allusion

Later text

Deuteronomy 15:19BSB

You must set apart to the LORD your God every firstborn male produced by your herds and flocks. You are not to put the firstborn of your oxen to work, nor are you to shear the firstborn of your flock.

Earlier text

Leviticus 22:22BSB

You are not to present to the LORD any animal that is blind, injured, or maimed, or anything with a running sore, a festering rash, or a scab; you must not put any of these on the altar as an offering made by fire to the LORD.

Significance

Leviticus 22:22 lists specific disqualifying blemishes for sacrificial animals — blind (עִוֶּרֶת), broken (שָׁבוּר), maimed, with sores or scabs — declaring "you shall not offer these to the LORD." Deuteronomy 15:19 addresses the same concern within the firstborn consecration law: every firstborn male must be set apart for the LORD, and 15:21 specifies that lameness or blindness disqualifies it from sacrifice. Both texts guard the quality of offerings presented at the altar, insisting that what is given to God must be the best, not the defective. The Deuteronomic text integrates the blemish prohibition into the practical economics of agricultural life by permitting non-sacrificial consumption of disqualified animals.

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