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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 44:17-19 → Deuteronomy 22:11

Allusion

Later text

Ezekiel 44:17-19BSB

When they enter the gates of the inner court, they are to wear linen garments; they must not wear anything made of wool when they minister at the gates of the inner court or inside the temple. They are to wear linen turbans on their heads and linen undergarments around their waists. They must not wear anything that makes them perspire. When they go out to the outer court, to the people, they are to take off the garments in which they have ministered, leave them in the holy chambers, and dress in other clothes so that they do not transmit holiness to the people with their garments.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 22:11BSB

Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.

Significance

Ezekiel 44:17-19 elaborates the priestly garment code requiring pure linen and forbidding wool, echoing Deuteronomy 22:11's prohibition against wearing שַׁעַטְנֵז (sha'atnez, mixed wool-and-linen fabric). The extended passage adds the regulation that priests must change garments when moving from the inner court to the outer court, so they "do not transmit holiness to the people through their garments" (44:19). This concern about holiness contagion through clothing extends the Deuteronomic fabric regulation into a comprehensive system of graded holiness: different zones of the temple require different vestments, and the sacred garments that contact the divine presence must not contact the common realm.

Found via: Keil and Delitzsch, Commentary on the Old Testament (1866)
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme