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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 3:4 → Leviticus 23:37

Allusion

Later text

Ezra 3:4BSB

They also celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles in accordance with what is written, and they offered burnt offerings daily based on the number prescribed for each day.

Earlier text

Leviticus 23:37BSB

These are the LORD’s appointed feasts, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for presenting offerings by fire to the LORD—burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its designated day.

Significance

Ezra 3:4 specifies that the returnees "offered burnt offerings daily based on the number prescribed for each day" (בְּמִסְפַּר כְּמִשְׁפַּט דְּבַר־יוֹם בְּיוֹמוֹ), using language that echoes Leviticus 23:37's prescription for festival offerings according to their appointed requirements. Leviticus 23:37 provides the comprehensive framework: "These are the LORD's appointed feasts... each on its designated day." The Ezra passage demonstrates meticulous adherence to the Levitical festival calendar, offering the precise quantities prescribed for each feast day. This careful compliance with "what is written" (כַּכָּתוּב) signals the post-exilic community's determination to establish their worship on strict Torah observance.

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

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