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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.

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Intertextuality Pair

Deuteronomy 15:19-23 → Leviticus 22:20

Allusion

Later text

Deuteronomy 15:19-23BSB

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. Each year you and your household are to eat it before the LORD your God in the place the LORD will choose. But if an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God. Eat it within your gates; both the ceremonially unclean and clean may eat it as they would a gazelle or a deer. But you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

Earlier text

Leviticus 22:20BSB

You must not present anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.

Significance

Leviticus 22:20 prohibits offering any animal with a מוּם (mum, "blemish"), declaring "it will not be acceptable on your behalf." Deuteronomy 15:19-23 applies this principle specifically to firstborn animals: every firstborn male must be consecrated to the LORD, but "if it has any blemish — if it is lame or blind, or has any serious defect — you must not sacrifice it to the LORD." Deuteronomy adds a practical provision absent from Leviticus: a blemished firstborn may be eaten as ordinary food at home, effectively redirecting the animal from sacred to secular use. Both texts preserve the principle that only unblemished animals qualify for the altar.

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