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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 7:12 → Leviticus 25:25

Allusion

Later text

Ezekiel 7:12BSB

The time has come; the day has arrived. Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn, for wrath is upon the whole multitude.

Earlier text

Leviticus 25:25BSB

If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his nearest of kin may come and redeem what his brother has sold.

Significance

Ezekiel 7:12 warns "let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn," nullifying the economic protections of Leviticus 25:25, which guarantees the right of redemption (גְּאֻלָּה, ge'ullah) for ancestral land. Under the Jubilee system, no sale was permanent because land would revert to its original family. Ezekiel declares this system irrelevant in the face of coming judgment—property transactions are meaningless when "wrath is upon the whole multitude." The contrast reveals that the approaching catastrophe will sweep away the very institutional safeguards God built into Israel's social order. Leviticus 25:25 identifies the responsible agent as the גֹּאֵל (go'el, "kinsman-redeemer"), the very office whose duty to reclaim family land Ezekiel's judgment renders moot.

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

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