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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

Psalm 106:32-33 → Numbers 20:12

Allusion

Later text

Psalm 106:32-33BSB

At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them. For they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips.

Earlier text

Numbers 20:12BSB

But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them."

Significance

Numbers 20:12 records God's verdict on Moses and Aaron at Meribah (cf. 20:13): "Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them." Psalm 106:32-33 recounts this event in its litany of Israel's failures: "At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them. For they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips." The psalm's phrasing places primary blame on the people's provocation while acknowledging Moses's rash speech (בָּטָא, bata', "to speak rashly"), offering a more nuanced assessment than Numbers alone. Together the texts show how Israel's corporate sin implicated even its greatest leader.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the verdict of Numbers 20:12 ("you did not trust Me" to show God holy) is retold in Psalm 106:32-33 with blame distributed between the rebelling people and Moses's rash lips, the confession keeping Meribah alive in Israel's liturgy as the stage of redemptive history that exposes every human mediator's frailty and awaits the Mediator who hallows God's name perfectly.

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