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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

Lamentations 5:7 → Leviticus 26:39

Allusion

Later text

Lamentations 5:7BSB

Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.

Earlier text

Leviticus 26:39BSB

Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.

Significance

Lamentations 5:7 declares "Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment," directly fulfilling Leviticus 26:39's warning that survivors in enemy lands "will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers" (בַּעֲוֹנֹת אֲבֹתָם, ba'avonot avotam). Both texts describe intergenerational guilt using the same vocabulary of bearing ancestral עָוֹן (avon, "iniquity"). Leviticus 26:39 stands within the covenant curse sequence that Moses outlined before Israel entered the land; Lamentations 5:7 confirms that this precise curse has been realized. The poet effectively reads the exile as the literal outworking of the Levitical covenant sanctions.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment — Leviticus 26:39's covenant sanction (survivors wasting away in enemy lands in their fathers' iniquities) is recorded as realized in Lamentations 5:7; the demonstrated relation is the threatened covenant word come to pass, not a traced theme development, so Promise-Fulfillment (curse-side of the covenant word) replaces the Longitudinal Theme label.

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