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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

Ezekiel 14:20 → Genesis 6

Allusion

Later text

Ezekiel 14:20BSB

then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. Their righteousness could deliver only themselves.

Earlier text

Significance

Ezekiel 14:20 repeats the triad of Noah, Daniel, and Job, reaffirming that even these exemplars of צִדְקָה (tsedaqah, "righteousness") could deliver only themselves. The allusion to Noah in Genesis 6 is sharpened by the emphasis that "they could not deliver their own sons or daughters"—a pointed contrast to the Genesis flood narrative where Noah's righteousness explicitly saved his entire household (Gen 7:1). This climactic repetition, coming after three hypothetical judgments (famine, wild beasts, sword), drives home the unprecedented nature of Jerusalem's guilt: not even the patriarch whose righteousness once preserved an entire family could intercede for this generation.

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

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