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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.

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Intertextuality Pair

Ezekiel 45:21-24 → Exodus 23:16

Allusion

Later text

Ezekiel 45:21-24BSB

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. On that day the prince shall provide a bull as a sin offering for himself and for all the people of the land. Each day during the seven days of the feast, he shall provide seven bulls and seven rams without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD, along with a male goat for a sin offering. He shall also provide as a grain offering an ephah for each bull and an ephah for each ram, along with a hin of olive oil for each ephah of grain.

Earlier text

Exodus 23:16BSB

You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.

Significance

Ezekiel 45:21-24 prescribes the offerings for the first-month Passover; Exodus 23:16 names the autumn feast חַג הָאָסִף (chag ha'asiph, "the Feast of Ingathering"), kept "at the end of the year, when you gather (אָסַף, asaph) your produce from the field." The connection between them runs through Ezekiel 45:25, which extends this Passover schedule to the seventh-month feast without alteration. So the offerings named here — a bull as חַטָּאת (chatta't, "sin offering") for the prince and all the people, seven bulls and seven rams תָּמִים (tamim, "without blemish") each day, a male goat, grain and oil — are what Ezekiel's autumn feast consists of. The comparison exposes how differently the two texts locate a feast's substance. In Exodus the feast is what the field produced: its name is the name of the crop coming in, and its date is the turn of the agricultural year. In Ezekiel the feast is what the prince provided: the crop is never mentioned, and the date is fixed by the sanctuary calendar. Exodus 23's assumption — that Israel is on its land and the land is yielding — was exactly what the exile had falsified. Ezekiel rebuilds the feast on a foundation the exile could not touch. Neither vision rebukes the other. God's generosity in the field is real, and Scripture never stops using harvest as the picture of His final gathering (Matthew 13:39). But Ezekiel puts first what has to come first: an ingathering is only good news for a people whose sin has been dealt with, and the one who deals with it is the Prince who pays.

Found via: No public domain commentary confirmation available
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression + Longitudinal Theme — Ezekiel's Passover schedule, extended at 45:25 to the seventh-month feast, set against the Covenant Code's harvest-named Feast of Ingathering