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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 22:9 → Leviticus 19:19

Allusion

Later text

Deuteronomy 22:9BSB

Do not plant your vineyard with two types of seed; if you do, the entire harvest will be defiled—both the crop you plant and the fruit of your vineyard.

Earlier text

Leviticus 19:19BSB

You are to keep My statutes. You shall not crossbreed two different kinds of livestock; you shall not sow your fields with two kinds of seed; and you shall not wear clothing made of two kinds of material.

Significance

Leviticus 19:19 establishes the foundational prohibition against כִּלְאַיִם (kil'ayim, "mixing kinds") — specifically in breeding animals, sowing seed, and wearing mixed fabrics. Deuteronomy 22:9 elaborates the agricultural dimension: "Do not plant your vineyard with two types of seed; if you do, the entire harvest will be defiled." The Deuteronomic restatement applies the Levitical principle to the specific context of viticulture in the promised land and adds a consequence absent from Leviticus: the contaminated harvest becomes devoted property. The shared concern for maintaining divinely ordered distinctions reflects a theology of creation boundaries embedded in Israel's daily agricultural practice.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the כִּלְאַיִם (kil'ayim) principle of Leviticus 19:19 is applied to viticulture in the land: Deuteronomy 22:9 re-legislates the no-mixing statute for the vineyard with the added sanction that the whole harvest "will be defiled" — holiness-code principle progressing into land-specific application.