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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

1 Chronicles 6:66 → Joshua 21:20

Allusion

Later text

1 Chronicles 6:66BSB

And some of the clans of the Kohathites were given cities from the tribe of Ephraim for their territory:

Earlier text

Joshua 21:20BSB

The remaining Kohathite clans of the Levites were allotted these cities: From the tribe of Ephraim

Significance

Joshua 21:20 introduces the cities given to the remaining Kohathite clans (those not descended from Aaron), allotted from the tribe of Ephraim. First Chronicles 6:66 begins its parallel account of these same non-Aaronic Kohathite settlements. Both texts distinguish between the Aaronic Kohathites (who received cities in Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin) and the remaining Kohathites (who received cities in Ephraim, Dan, and western Manasseh). This careful subdivision within the Kohathite clan demonstrates the precision of the Levitical city system, which distributed forty-eight cities across all twelve tribes to ensure the Levites' dispersed presence as teachers of Torah throughout Israel.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — the same Levitical-cities thread: Joshua 21:20 opens the roster of towns for the remaining Kohathite clans in Ephraim, and 1 Chr 6:66 resumes precisely that entry; the reproduced allotment carries the institution of Levites dispersed as Torah-bearers among the tribes from the conquest to the Second Temple.

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