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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 45:21 → Deuteronomy 16:1

Allusion

Later text

Ezekiel 45:21BSB

On the fourteenth day of the first month you are to observe the Passover, a feast of seven days, during which unleavened bread shall be eaten.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 16:1BSB

Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

Significance

Ezekiel 45:21 prescribes the Passover (פֶּסַח, pesach) as a seven-day festival in the eschatological temple, echoing Deuteronomy 16:1-8's regulations for the Passover observance. Both texts mandate the eating of unleavened bread (מַצּוֹת, matstsot) for seven days. However, Ezekiel's version introduces the נָשִׂיא (nasi, "prince") as the one responsible for providing sacrificial offerings on behalf of the people (45:22), a role absent from the Deuteronomic legislation. This innovation centralizes festival worship under the eschatological ruler, ensuring that the Passover commemoration in the restored temple is led by the Davidic prince rather than left to individual households.

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