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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Deuteronomy 19:1 → Numbers 35:9

Allusion

Later text

Deuteronomy 19:1BSB

When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land He is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their cities and houses,

Earlier text

Numbers 35:9BSB

Then the LORD said to Moses,

Significance

Numbers 35:9ff establishes the system of six cities of refuge (עָרֵי מִקְלָט, 'arey miqlat) -- three on each side of the Jordan -- for those who kill unintentionally. Deuteronomy 19:1ff recapitulates this legislation with additional pastoral detail, including the provision to add three more cities if God enlarges Israel's territory (Deut 19:8-9). Moses's Deuteronomy retelling emphasizes the humanitarian purpose: "Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the manslayer in a rage, overtake him if the distance is great, and strike him dead though he did not deserve to die, since he did not intend any harm" (Deut 19:6). The Deuteronomy formulation reveals the theological rationale behind Numbers' institutional design: preventing innocent blood from being shed in the land.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the cities-of-refuge institution ordained in Numbers 35 is recapitulated for imminent settlement, with roads, regions, and the contingency of enlarged territory (Deut 19:8-9): the same asylum provision advanced to its land-shaped stage so that innocent blood not be shed in the inheritance.

Linked Mentions 1

Trajectory Tables 1

Cities of Refuge (Safety in Christ) Trajectory Table