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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
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

Deuteronomy 26:5 → Numbers 20:15

Allusion

Later text

Deuteronomy 26:5BSB

and you are to declare before the LORD your God, "My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.

Earlier text

Numbers 20:15BSB

how our fathers went down to Egypt, where we lived many years. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers,

Significance

In Numbers 20:15 Moses recounts Israel's history to the king of Edom: "our fathers went down to Egypt, where we lived many years. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers." Deuteronomy 26:5 prescribes a strikingly similar liturgical confession for every Israelite bringing firstfruits: "My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt... and the Egyptians mistreated us." Both texts follow the same narrative arc: ancestral descent into Egypt, oppression, and divine deliverance. Numbers uses this as diplomatic rhetoric to gain passage through Edom; Deuteronomy transforms it into Israel's perpetual liturgical identity -- every generation recites the same salvation history when offering the land's produce.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the same descent-oppression-deliverance recital moves from diplomatic speech before Edom (Num 20:15) to Israel's standing firstfruits liturgy (Deut 26:5): redemptive history itself, now advanced a stage further into the land, becomes the worshiper's perpetual confession.