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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 44:23 → Leviticus 10:10-11

Allusion

Later text

Ezekiel 44:23BSB

They are to teach My people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to discern between the clean and the unclean.

Earlier text

Leviticus 10:10-11BSB

You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean, so that you may teach the Israelites all the statutes that the LORD has given them through Moses."

Significance

Ezekiel 44:23 reaffirms the priestly teaching role established in Leviticus 10:10-11, which commands Aaron and his sons to "distinguish between the holy and the common" and "teach the Israelites all the statutes that the LORD has given them through Moses." The extended Levitical passage (10:10-11) pairs the distinction-making function with Torah instruction; Ezekiel 44:23-24 mirrors this by combining the holy/common teaching mandate with the judicial role of adjudicating disputes. Both texts present the priesthood as primarily a teaching office, not merely a sacrificial one—the priest's fundamental vocation is to make God's holiness categories intelligible and applicable to the community's daily life. The verbal overlap is nearly exact in the source language too — Leviticus 10:10-11's fourfold vocabulary (קֹדֶשׁ/חֹל, "holy/common"; טָהוֹר/טָמֵא, "clean/unclean") reappears almost unchanged in Ezekiel's restored charter.

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

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