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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

2 Chronicles 35:11 → Numbers 18:3-4

Echo

Later text

2 Chronicles 35:11BSB

And they slaughtered the Passover lambs, while the priests sprinkled the blood handed to them and the Levites skinned the animals.

Earlier text

Numbers 18:3-4BSB

And they shall attend to your duties and to all the duties of the Tent; but they must not come near to the furnishings of the sanctuary or the altar, or both they and you will die. They are to join you and attend to the duties of the Tent of Meeting, doing all the work at the Tent; but no outsider may come near you.

Significance

Numbers 18:3-4 defines the Levites' role as attending to tabernacle duties and guarding the tent, while the priests alone handle altar and inner sanctuary functions. 2 Chronicles 35:11 shows this division in action during Josiah's Passover: Levites slaughtered and skinned the Passover lambs, then handed the blood to the priests for sprinkling. This cooperative arrangement -- with Levites performing preparatory work and priests performing the sacramental act of blood application -- implements exactly what Numbers legislated. The Chronicler views this proper ordering as what made Josiah's Passover unparalleled since the days of Samuel (2 Chr 35:18).

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — the priest-Levite division Numbers 18:3-4 legislates (Levites do "all the work at the Tent" but must not come near the altar) is visible in the very syntax of 2 Chronicles 35:11: the Levites "slaughtered the Passover lambs" and "skinned the animals," while only "the priests sprinkled the blood handed to them." The developing institution of ordered, two-tiered sacrificial service runs from the wilderness charter to Josiah's Passover and finds its terminus in Christ, who is at once priest and offering.

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Priestly Ministrations (Service and Sacrifice) Trajectory Table