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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.

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Intertextuality Pair

Ezra 3:2 → Deuteronomy 12:6

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 12:6BSB

To that place you are to bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and heave offerings, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, as well as the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

Significance

Deuteronomy 12:6 specifies the full range of offerings—burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, heave offerings, vow offerings, freewill offerings, and firstborn—that Israel must bring to the divinely chosen place. Ezra 3:2 records the returned exiles offering עֹלוֹת ('olot, "burnt offerings") on the rebuilt altar as prescribed in the "Law of Moses." The post-exilic community's immediate restoration of the sacrificial system at Jerusalem signals their commitment to the Deuteronomic offering regulations. Though the temple was not yet rebuilt, the returnees reestablished the core of centralized worship by resuming the offerings Moses commanded at the location God had chosen.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression

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