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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Ezra 3:2 → Deuteronomy 12:11

Allusion

Later text

Ezra 3:2BSB

Then Jeshua son of Jozadak and his fellow priests, along with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his associates, began to build the altar of the God of Israel to sacrifice burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 12:11BSB

then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD.

Significance

Deuteronomy 12:11 commands Israel to bring burnt offerings and sacrifices to the place where "the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name" (לְשַׁכֵּן שְׁמוֹ שָׁם, leshakken shemo sham), and Ezra 3:2 records the returned exiles rebuilding the altar and offering burnt offerings "as it is written in the Law of Moses." The returnees' careful obedience to the Deuteronomic centralization principle—offering sacrifices only at the authorized site—demonstrates that the Torah's worship regulations remained operative even after exile. Ezra's emphasis on conformity to the "Law of Moses the man of God" signals that the post-exilic community understood their restoration as a renewed opportunity to fulfill the very commands Moses had given.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Deuteronomy 12:11's command to bring burnt offerings and sacrifices to the chosen dwelling of the Name is taken up at the next stage of the one story: the returned exiles rebuild the altar and offer burnt offerings "as it is written in the Law of Moses," re-establishing chosen-place worship after exile.

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