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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 10:35-37 → Deuteronomy 26:12

Allusion

Later text

Nehemiah 10:35-37BSB

We will also bring the firstfruits of our land and of every fruit tree to the house of the LORD year by year. And we will bring the firstborn of our sons and our livestock, as it is written in the Law, and will bring the firstborn of our herds and flocks to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God. Moreover, we will bring to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God the firstfruits of our dough, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees, and of our new wine and oil. A tenth of our produce belongs to the Levites, so that they shall receive tithes in all the towns where we labor.

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 prescribes the third-year tithe (מַעְשַׂר, ma'aser) to be given to the Levite, foreigner, fatherless, and widow "that they may eat and be filled within your gates." Nehemiah 10:35-37 records the post-exilic community pledging to bring firstfruits, firstborn, and tithes to the temple storerooms for the Levites, combining multiple Deuteronomic and Levitical obligations into a single covenant renewal pledge. The returned exiles' formal commitment to tithe—including the provision that "the Levites are to bring a tenth of these tithes to the storerooms of the treasury in the house of our God"—demonstrates systematic implementation of the Deuteronomic welfare system after decades of exile when these practices had lapsed.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Nehemiah 10:35-37's sworn commitment to firstfruits and tithes reactivates the Deuteronomic tithe-welfare system of Deuteronomy 26:12 after its lapse in exile; Mosaic provision for Levite and poor advances to systematic covenant practice in the restored community.