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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 1:6 → Exodus 12:35

Allusion

Later text

Ezra 1:6BSB

And all their neighbors supported them with articles of silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with valuables, in addition to all their freewill offerings.

Earlier text

Exodus 12:35BSB

Furthermore, the Israelites acted on Moses' word and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold, and for clothing.

Significance

Ezra 1:6 describes how "all their neighbors supported them with articles of silver and gold, with goods and livestock," directly echoing Exodus 12:35 where the Israelites asked the Egyptians for "articles of silver and gold" (כְּלֵי־כֶסֶף וּכְלֵי זָהָב, keley-kesef ukhley zahav). The verbal parallel is unmistakable: both texts use the same language of silver, gold, and goods given by surrounding peoples at the moment of departure. Ezra intentionally frames the return from Babylonian exile as a new exodus, with the neighbors' contributions paralleling Egypt's "plundering," signaling that God orchestrates the same pattern of provision whenever He delivers His people from captivity.

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 1:6 → Exodus 12:35

Significance

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