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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.

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Intertextuality Pair

1 Chronicles 6:61 → Joshua 21:5

Quotation

Later text

1 Chronicles 6:61BSB

To the rest of the Kohathites, ten cities were allotted from the half-tribe of Manasseh.

Earlier text

Joshua 21:5BSB

The remaining descendants of Kohath received ten cities by lot from the tribes of Ephraim, Dan, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

Significance

Joshua 21:5 records that the remaining descendants of Kohath (those not of Aaron's line) received ten cities by lot (גּוֹרָל, goral) from the tribes of Ephraim, Dan, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. First Chronicles 6:61 provides the parallel record of this same allotment. Both texts carefully distinguish the non-Aaronic Kohathites from their priestly relatives, demonstrating that the Levitical system differentiated between those who served at the altar (Aaron's line) and those who bore other tabernacle and temple responsibilities. This territorial subdivision ensured that priestly families were concentrated near the central sanctuary while other Levites were distributed more broadly.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — one strand of the Levitical-cities institution: the ten towns lotted to the non-Aaronic Kohathites from Ephraim, Dan, and half-Manasseh (Josh 21:5) reappear in 1 Chr 6:61, the divinely cast lot (גּוֹרָל) of the conquest era restated as the abiding order of Levitical dispersion among the tribes.

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