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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 6:1-4 → Genesis 46:11

Allusion

Later text

1 Chronicles 6:1-4BSB

The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. Eleazar was the father of Phinehas, Phinehas was the father of Abishua,

Earlier text

Genesis 46:11BSB

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

Significance

The Chronicler's Levitical genealogy (1 Chr 6:1-4) begins with the three sons of Levi—Gershon, Kohath, and Merari—drawn from Genesis 46:11's list of those who entered Egypt with Jacob. From this Genesis starting point, the Chronicler extends the Kohathite line through Amram, Aaron, and Eleazar down to Zadok and beyond, tracing the high-priestly succession. Genesis 46:11 provides the root; the Chronicler builds the entire priestly genealogical tree from it, connecting the pre-Egyptian patriarchal family to the post-exilic Zadokite priesthood. The Amramite line named here (1 Chr 6:2-3) includes not only Aaron but Moses and Miriam, situating Israel's lawgiver and prophetess within the same Levitical household that produced the priesthood.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — Genesis 46:11 plants the root (Levi's three sons entering Egypt) from which the Chronicler grows the whole high-priestly tree down to Zadok and the exile (1 Chr 6:1-15); the pair marks the earliest and latest stations of the one priesthood thread that spans the canon from the patriarchal family to the Second Temple and points beyond itself to Christ's priesthood.