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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 16:16-17 → Exodus 23:14-17

Quotation

Later text

Deuteronomy 16:16-17BSB

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. Everyone must appear with a gift as he is able, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you.

Earlier text

Exodus 23:14-17BSB

Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me. You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, because that was the month you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before Me empty-handed. You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field. Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD.

Significance

Exodus 23:14-17 prescribes Israel's three annual pilgrimage festivals (שָׁלֹשׁ רְגָלִים, shalosh regalim): Unleavened Bread, Harvest (Weeks), and Ingathering (Booths). Deuteronomy 16:16-17 restates the same triad with key additions: worship must be centralized at "the place the LORD your God will choose," each man must bring a gift proportional to the blessing he has received, and no one may appear "empty-handed" (רֵיקָם, reqam). Both texts share the requirement that "all your males" must appear before the LORD, but Deuteronomy shapes the festivals around the centralized sanctuary and ties offering size to individual prosperity, adapting the earlier legislation for settled agricultural life in the land.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Exodus's שָׁלֹשׁ רְגָלִים triad is re-promulgated for settlement: one chosen place, no one empty-handed, each man's gift according to the blessing given — the festal institution progressed to its land-and-sanctuary form.

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