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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 35:5

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 35:5BSB

Take from among you an offering to the LORD. Let everyone whose heart is willing bring an offering to the LORD: gold, silver, and bronze;

Significance

Moses' call in Exodus 35:5 for "an offering to the LORD" (תְּרוּמַת יְהוָה, terumat YHWH) of "gold, silver, and bronze" for the tabernacle provides the template for Cyrus's decree in Ezra 1:4, which calls for neighbors to assist returnees with "silver, gold, goods, and livestock" for rebuilding the temple. Both texts present the construction of God's dwelling as a community project requiring voluntary contributions of precious materials. The Ezra narrator shapes the return narrative to mirror the Exodus pattern: Israel receives Gentile wealth for building a sanctuary, establishing continuity between the original tabernacle and the rebuilt second temple as expressions of the same divine purpose.

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

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