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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

1 Chronicles 6:1 → Exodus 6:16

Echo

Later text

1 Chronicles 6:1BSB

The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Earlier text

Exodus 6:16BSB

These were the names of the sons of Levi according to their records: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Levi lived 137 years.

Significance

Exodus 6:16 names the sons of Levi — "Gershon, Kohath, and Merari" (גֵּרְשׁוֹן וּקְהָת וּמְרָרִי) — within a genealogical section establishing Moses and Aaron's priestly credentials during the exodus narrative. 1 Chronicles 6:1 opens with the identical list: "The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari." The Chronicler's repetition serves a distinct post-exilic purpose: legitimating the Levitical temple personnel by anchoring them in the Mosaic-era genealogy. While Exodus embeds the genealogy within a narrative of liberation and prophetic commissioning, Chronicles extracts and extends it to trace the priestly line through Eleazar to Zadok, demonstrating unbroken continuity of the Levitical priesthood from Sinai to the Second Temple.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — the three-son roster "Gershon, Kohath, and Merari" is the charter datum of the priestly institution, and its reproduction from Exodus 6:16 in 1 Chr 6:1 is one thread of the canon-long priesthood theme: the line that ran from Sinai through Eleazar to Zadok legitimates Second-Temple ministry and runs on toward the greater Priest the institution always awaited.