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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

Nehemiah 10:35 → Deuteronomy 26:12

Allusion

Later text

Nehemiah 10:35BSB

We will also bring the firstfruits of our land and of every fruit tree to the house of the LORD year by year.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 26:12BSB

When you have finished laying aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you are to give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat and be filled within your gates.

Significance

Deuteronomy 26:12 commands Israel to give the third-year tithe (מַעְשַׂר, ma'aser) to the Levite, foreigner, fatherless, and widow. Nehemiah 10:35 records the post-exilic community pledging to bring firstfruits (בִּכּוּרִים, bikkurim) of their ground and fruit trees to the house of the LORD annually. The returned exiles' formal oath to resume tithing and firstfruit offerings represents their recommitment to the Deuteronomic economic provisions that sustained both temple worship and social welfare. Nehemiah's covenant renewal document combines Deuteronomic, Levitical, and Priestly tithe regulations into a single binding pledge, showing how post-exilic Judaism synthesized multiple Pentateuchal laws into comprehensive practice.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the covenant pledge of Nehemiah 10:35, with its surrounding tithe provisions, reconstitutes the Deuteronomic giving system of which Deuteronomy 26:12's tithe is part; Mosaic legislation lapsed in exile advances to formally sworn communal practice in restored Jerusalem.