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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

Isaiah 52:11-12 → Exodus 12:11

Allusion

Later text

Isaiah 52:11-12BSB

Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD. For you will not leave in a hurry nor flee in haste, for the LORD goes before you, and the God of Israel is your rear guard.

Earlier text

Exodus 12:11BSB

This is how you are to eat it: You must be fully dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You are to eat in haste; it is the LORD's Passover.

Significance

The departure/haste-inversion seam of the new-exodus oracle. Isaiah 52:11 commands "Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing" — echoing the original departure from Egypt — and 52:12 deliberately reverses its manner: Israel ate the Passover "in haste" (בְּחִפָּזוֹן, bechippazon, Exodus 12:11), but "you will not leave in a hurry nor flee in haste, for the LORD goes before you, and the God of Israel is your rear guard." The rare חִפָּזוֹן (three occurrences in the canon) is the citation-grade verbal hinge: the greater deliverance does not repeat the first exodus but surpasses it — a dignified procession under God's own escort rather than a panicked flight.

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

▸ The Passover

Linked Mentions 6

Trajectory Tables 5

Anchor Texts 1

Exodus 12 — The Passover

Isaiah 52:11-12 → Exodus 12:11

Significance

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