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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 20:21 → Leviticus 18:5

Quotation

Later text

Ezekiel 20:21BSB

But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against 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 20:21 cites Leviticus 18:5's formula for the third time in the chapter, now applying it to the second wilderness generation: "the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them" (וָחַי בָּהֶם, vachai bahem). This third citation creates a literary pattern of intergenerational rebellion—parents in Egypt (vv. 8-9), the wilderness generation (vv. 13-14), and their children (vv. 21-22)—each cycle quoting the same Levitical promise of life and demonstrating the same failure to embrace it. The repetition indicts not one generation but the entire national history.

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

Linked Mentions 1

Trajectory Tables 1

Two Covenants (Law and Promise) Trajectory Table