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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 10:19 → Leviticus 5:15

Allusion

Later text

Ezra 10:19BSB

They pledged to send their wives away, and for their guilt they presented a ram from the flock as a guilt offering.

Earlier text

Leviticus 5:15BSB

"If someone acts unfaithfully and sins unintentionally against any of the LORD's holy things, he must bring his guilt offering to the LORD: an unblemished ram from the flock, of proper value in silver shekels according to the sanctuary shekel; it is a guilt offering.

Significance

Ezra 10:19 records that the guilty priests "pledged to put away their wives, and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt offering" (אָשָׁם, asham). This sacrificial response directly applies Leviticus 5:15, which prescribes a ram (אַיִל, ayil) as the guilt offering for unfaithfulness (מַעַל, ma'al) against the LORD's holy things. The priests' offering of a ram demonstrates that the post-exilic community treated intermarriage as sacrilege requiring the specific Levitical remedy for trespass against holiness. Their compliance with the Levitical asham protocol shows continuity between pre-exilic sacrificial law and post-exilic practice. The text underscores their culpability with the adjectival form אֲשֵׁמִים (ashemim, "being guilty"), naming their state before they act to remedy it.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme

Linked Mentions 1

Trajectory Tables 1

Trespass-Offering (Restitution and Restoration) Trajectory Table