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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Ezekiel 24:7 → Leviticus 17:13

Allusion

Later text

Ezekiel 24:7BSB

For the blood she shed is still within her; she poured it out on the bare rock; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust.

Earlier text

Leviticus 17:13BSB

And if any Israelite or foreigner living among them hunts down a wild animal or bird that may be eaten, he must drain its blood and cover it with dirt.

Significance

Ezekiel 24:7 accuses Jerusalem of setting her blood on bare rock, "not pouring it on the ground to cover it with dust," which directly violates the command of Leviticus 17:13 that requires covering the דָּם (dam, "blood") of slaughtered game with עָפָר (afar, "dust/earth"). The Levitical law reflects the sanctity of blood as the bearer of life (Lev 17:11), demanding its reverent concealment. Jerusalem's brazen display of blood on exposed rock symbolizes shameless violence committed openly, without any attempt at concealment or atonement. God declares He has placed her blood on bare rock so that it "will not be covered"—her guilt is as exposed as her crimes.

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

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