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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 63:13 → Exodus 15:5

Allusion

Later text

Isaiah 63:13BSB

who led them through the depths like a horse in the wilderness, so that they did not stumble?

Earlier text

Exodus 15:5BSB

The depths have covered them; they sank there like a stone.

Significance

Isaiah 63:13 recalls that God "led them through the depths (תְּהֹמוֹת, tehomot)," using the same cosmic deep-waters vocabulary found in the Song of the Sea, Exodus 15:5: "the depths (תְּהֹמֹת, tehomot) covered them." Both passages use the distinctive plural of תְּהוֹם (tehom, "deep/abyss") — a word with creation overtones from Genesis 1:2. In Exodus 15, the depths swallow the Egyptians; in Isaiah 63, God leads Israel safely through those same depths. Isaiah's prayer reinterprets the exodus through the lens of creation theology: the God who mastered the primordial deep at creation also mastered the sea's depths for Israel's deliverance.

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

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