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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 → Leviticus 23:4

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

Leviticus 23:4BSB

These are the LORD's appointed feasts, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times.

Significance

Ezekiel 45:21 prescribes the Passover as a seven-day festival in the eschatological temple, echoing Leviticus 23:4-8's designation of Passover and Unleavened Bread as מוֹעֲדֵי יהוה (mo'adey YHWH, "appointed feasts of the LORD"). Both texts establish the fourteenth day of the first month as the Passover date with seven days of unleavened bread. Ezekiel simplifies the Levitical festival calendar to only two major feasts—Passover and a fall festival (45:25)—and assigns the נָשִׂיא (nasi, "prince") responsibility for providing all the offerings, centralizing festival worship under royal patronage in a way the Levitical legislation did not envision.

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