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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 26:5-10 → Numbers 20:15-16

Allusion

Later text

Deuteronomy 26:5-10BSB

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. But the Egyptians mistreated us and afflicted us, putting us to hard labor. So we called out to the LORD, the God of our fathers; and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, toil, and oppression. Then the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror, signs, and wonders. And He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land that You, O LORD, have given me." Then you are to place the basket before the LORD your God and bow down before Him.

Earlier text

Numbers 20:15-16BSB

how our fathers went down to Egypt, where we lived many years. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers, and when we cried out to the LORD, He heard our voice, sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Now look, we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.

Significance

Numbers 20:15-16 contains a concise salvation history recital addressed to Edom's king: descent to Egypt, oppression, crying out to the LORD, and deliverance by an angel. Deuteronomy 26:5-10 prescribes a nearly identical recital as the permanent liturgy for firstfruits offerings: wandering ancestor, descent to Egypt, oppression, crying out, and deliverance "with a mighty hand and outstretched arm." Both share the formulaic pattern of צָעַק (tsa'aq, "cry out") followed by divine response. The key difference is context: Numbers uses the creed diplomatically to establish kinship with Edom, while Deuteronomy institutionalizes it as Israel's defining worship confession, recited at every firstfruits presentation throughout their generations.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Numbers' concise salvation-history recital to Edom's king is carried forward and institutionalized as the firstfruits creed of Deuteronomy 26, now completed by the land-gift ("He brought us to this place and gave us this land"), each generation locating itself inside the advancing story of redemption.