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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 52:11 → Leviticus 13:45

Allusion

Later text

Isaiah 52:11BSB

Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.

Earlier text

Leviticus 13:45BSB

A diseased person must wear torn clothes and let his hair hang loose, and he must cover his mouth and cry out, 'Unclean, unclean!'

Significance

Isaiah 52:11's cry "Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing" (אַל־תִּגְּעוּ טָמֵא, al-tigg'u tame) echoes the leper's required warning cry from Leviticus 13:45: the afflicted person must cry "Unclean, unclean!" (טָמֵא טָמֵא, tame tame). Both passages use ritual-purity language and the repeated imperative form. In Leviticus, the unclean person warns others to stay away; in Isaiah, God commands His people to separate from Babylonian impurity. The exodus-from-Babylon is thus framed in purity language: leaving exile is like leaving a zone of contagion. The carriers of the LORD's vessels (52:11) must maintain strict separation from all defilement as they process out of pagan territory.

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