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Intertextuality Pair
Allusion
Later text
“In those days, when you multiply and increase in the land,” declares the LORD, “they will no longer discuss the ark of the covenant of the LORD. It will never come to mind, and no one will remember it or miss it, nor will another one be made.
Earlier text
Genesis 1:28BSB
God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth."
Genesis 1:28 commands humanity to "be fruitful (pārâ) and multiply (rābâ) and fill the earth," the load-bearing verb-pair of the Adamic commission. In Jeremiah 3:16 the prophet's restoration vision marks the new-covenant age — when the faithless children "return" to Zion (3:14) — with the same fruitfulness language: "In those days, when you multiply and increase in the land." After the corporate Adam's covenant adultery (the whole chapter indicts Israel's harlotry), God promises not condemnation but a renewed multiplication so abundant that the ark of the covenant will no longer be missed, for the LORD's presence will fill Jerusalem itself, now called "the Throne of the LORD" with all nations gathered (3:17). The commission's fruitfulness clause is thus reissued as a marker of restoration that transcends the old cultic order, gathering the nations into Edenic fullness. This trajectory finds its telos in Christ, in whom the regathered people multiply as disciples filling the earth (Matt 28:18-20).