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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 20:13 → Leviticus 18:5

Quotation

Later text

Ezekiel 20:13BSB

Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness.

Earlier text

Leviticus 18:5BSB

Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.

Significance

Ezekiel 20:13 quotes Leviticus 18:5's life-giving formula—"the man who does these things will live by them" (וָחַי בָּהֶם, vachai bahem)—in the context of Israel's first wilderness rebellion. The quotation now functions ironically: God gave statutes designed for life, but Israel "rejected My ordinances" (מִשְׁפָּטַי מָאָסוּ, mishpatay ma'asu) and "profaned My Sabbaths." The repeated citation of the Levitical formula alongside Israel's repeated rejection creates a pattern of tragic contrast—the means of life offered and refused—which Ezekiel uses to indict not God's law but Israel's persistent refusal to walk in it.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme + Contrast

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Two Covenants (Law and Promise) Trajectory Table