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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 16:16 → Exodus 23:14

Quotation

Later text

Deuteronomy 16:16BSB

Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.

Earlier text

Exodus 23:14BSB

Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me.

Significance

Exodus 23:14 commands Israel, "Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me" (שָׁלֹשׁ רְגָלִים תָּחֹג לִי, shalosh regalim tachog li), and Deuteronomy 16:16 restates this: "Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose." Both texts prescribe the same three pilgrim festivals—Unleavened Bread, Weeks, and Ingathering/Booths. Deuteronomy adds the centralization requirement ("at the place He will choose") and the instruction that "No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed" (Deut 16:16), specifying proportional giving "according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you" (16:17). The progression from Exodus's general calendar to Deuteronomy's centralized and proportional system reflects Israel's transition from wilderness to settled worship.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the three-festival calendar of Exodus 23:14 is carried forward to its centralized stage: "in the place He will choose," with giving proportioned to blessing — the same pilgrim-feast institution advanced from wilderness calendar to sanctuary-centered worship in the land.

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