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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 35:21-22

Echo

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 35:21-22BSB

And everyone whose heart stirred him and whose spirit prompted him came and brought an offering to the LORD for the work on the Tent of Meeting, for all its services, and for the holy garments. So all who had willing hearts, both men and women, came and brought brooches and earrings, rings and necklaces, and all kinds of gold jewelry. And they all presented their gold as a wave offering to the LORD.

Significance

Cyrus's edict in Ezra 1:4 commands neighbors to supply returning exiles with "silver, gold, goods, and livestock, along with a freewill offering" (נְדָבָה, nedavah) for the house of God. This deliberately echoes Exodus 35:21-22, where the Israelites brought offerings of gold, silver, and materials for building the tabernacle (the chapter's summary calls them "a freewill offering," נְדָבָה, 35:29), with "everyone whose heart stirred him" (כָּל אִישׁ אֲשֶׁר נְשָׂאוֹ לִבּוֹ). The Ezra narrator frames the return from exile as a new Exodus: just as Israel left Egypt with Egyptian wealth to build God's dwelling (Exod 12:35-36), so the returning exiles receive Gentile contributions to rebuild the temple. The shared vocabulary of freewill offerings connects both building projects under the same pattern of divine provision.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Analogy

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