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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

Ezra 1:4 → Exodus 12:36

Allusion

Later text

Ezra 1:4BSB

And let every survivor, wherever he lives, be assisted by the men of that region with silver, gold, goods, and livestock, along with a freewill offering for the house of God in Jerusalem.'"

Earlier text

Exodus 12:36BSB

And the LORD gave the people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that they granted their request. In this way they plundered the Egyptians.

Significance

Exodus 12:36 records that the LORD gave Israel favor (חֵן, chen) in the sight of the Egyptians so they "plundered" (נָצַל, natsal) Egypt, receiving silver, gold, and clothing. Ezra 1:4 echoes this when Cyrus decrees that surrounding peoples supply the returning exiles with silver, gold, goods, and livestock. Both texts describe God moving pagan hearts to enrich His departing people—in Exodus through divine favor granted to slaves, in Ezra through a royal decree from a Persian king. The parallel signals that the return from Babylon recapitulates the exodus pattern: deliverance accompanied by the wealth of the nations flowing to the covenant community.

Found via: Keil and Delitzsch, Commentary on the Old Testament (1866)
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Typology

▸ The Passover

Linked Mentions 3

Trajectory Tables 2

Anchor Texts 1

Exodus 12 — The Passover

Ezra 1:4 → Exodus 12:36

Significance

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