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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Nehemiah 10:35 → Deuteronomy 26:2

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 26:2BSB

you are to take some of the firstfruits of all your produce from the soil of the land that the LORD your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name,

Significance

Deuteronomy 26:2 requires Israel to bring firstfruits (רֵאשִׁית, reshit) of their produce to the place God will choose, and Nehemiah 10:35 records the post-exilic community pledging to "bring the firstfruits of our land and of every fruit tree to the house of the LORD year by year." Both texts link the offering of firstfruits to the authorized worship site—the "place the LORD will choose" in Deuteronomy becomes the rebuilt temple in Nehemiah. The restored community's pledge to resume this practice demonstrates that the Deuteronomic agricultural worship system remained normative for Israel's self-understanding even after exile disrupted its observance for generations.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Deuteronomy 26:2's command to bring firstfruits to the place the LORD will choose is implemented by written covenant pledge at the rebuilt temple (Nehemiah 10:35); the Deuteronomic ordinance advances from Moab-plains legislation to sworn practice in the post-exilic community.

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First Fruits Trajectory Table