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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

2 Chronicles 35:11 → Numbers 18:6

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 18:6BSB

Behold, I Myself have selected your fellow Levites from the Israelites as a gift to you, dedicated to the LORD to perform the service for the Tent of Meeting.

Significance

Numbers 18:6 describes the Levites as a מַתָּנָה (mattanah, "gift") given to Aaron, dedicated to perform tabernacle service. 2 Chronicles 35:11 shows this gift functioning in practice: at Josiah's Passover, the Levites slaughtered lambs and skinned animals while the priests sprinkled blood. The division of labor exactly follows the Numbers mandate -- Levites handle preparatory tasks, priests perform the sacral act of blood application. The Chronicler presents Josiah's Passover as the exemplary enactment of the Mosaic system, noting it was unmatched since Samuel's day (2 Chr 35:18).

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — the Levites given "as a gift... to perform the service for the Tent of Meeting" (Num 18:6) are seen performing that gift-service at Josiah's Passover, slaughtering and skinning the animals while the priests sprinkle the blood (2 Chr 35:11); the theme of divinely donated servants sustaining Israel's sacrificial worship develops from the wilderness institution into monarchic practice, a line of gracious provision for worship that God completes in the gift of His Son.

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