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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 63:12 → Exodus 14:16

Allusion

Later text

Isaiah 63:12BSB

who sent His glorious arm to lead them by the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to gain for Himself everlasting renown,

Earlier text

Exodus 14:16BSB

And as for you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.

Significance

Isaiah 63:12 recalls that God "divided the waters (בּוֹקֵעַ מַיִם, boqea mayim) before them" by Moses' glorious arm (זְרוֹעַ תִּפְאַרְתּוֹ, zero'a tif'arto), directly recalling Exodus 14:16 where Moses was told to "stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it (וּבְקָעֵהוּ, uvqa'ehu)." The same root בקע (baqa, "split/divide") connects both passages. Isaiah 63:12 sets this sea-splitting memory within a penitential prayer (63:7-64:12) that pleads for God to act again as He did at the exodus. The prayer uses the exodus vocabulary as both memorial and petition — remembering the divided sea to motivate God to intervene again with the same power for the current generation.

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

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