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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
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

Isaiah 43:1 → Exodus 14

Echo

Later text

Isaiah 43:1BSB

Now this is what the LORD says—He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: "Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine!

Earlier text

Significance

Isaiah 43:1 declares "I have redeemed you" (גְּאַלְתִּיךָ, ge'altikha), and 43:2 promises "when you pass through the waters, I will be with you" — language that directly recalls Israel's passage through the Red Sea in Exodus 14. The verb גאל (ga'al, "redeem") ties the future restoration to the foundational redemptive act of the exodus. Isaiah deliberately layers creation and exodus language together (43:1 — "He who created you... He who formed you"), making the new exodus from Babylon simultaneously a new creation and a recapitulation of the original deliverance from Egypt. The waters that once threatened at the Red Sea will again be no barrier to the redeemed people.

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

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