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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 12:36

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 12:36BSB

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 emphasizes that the Egyptians gave so freely that Israel "plundered" (וַיְנַצְּלוּ, vaynatselu) them, while Ezra 1:6 describes neighbors supplying the returning exiles with articles of silver and gold along with freewill offerings. Both passages portray pagan peoples enriching the departing covenant community at a moment of divinely orchestrated liberation. The shared vocabulary of silver, gold, and goods (כְּלֵי כֶסֶף וּכְלֵי זָהָב, keley kesef ukhley zahav) links the two events, and the inclusion of "freewill offerings" (נְדָבוֹת, nedavot) in Ezra 1:6 adds a cultic dimension—these gifts are directed toward rebuilding God's house, much as Israel's Egyptian plunder was later consecrated for the tabernacle.

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 12:36

Significance

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