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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

Daniel 9:4 → Leviticus 26:40

Allusion

Later text

Daniel 9:4BSB

And I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed, "O, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving devotion to those who love Him and keep His commandments,

Earlier text

Leviticus 26:40BSB

But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—

Significance

Leviticus 26:40 establishes the conditional framework for post-exile restoration: "if they will confess (יִתְוַדּוּ, yitvaddu) their iniquity and that of their fathers." Daniel 9:4 enacts precisely this Levitical condition, beginning his prayer with confession using the root ידה (yadah, "to confess"): "I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed." Daniel's entire prayer (9:4-19) functions as the fulfillment of Leviticus 26:40's restoration prerequisite -- the exile generation acknowledging both their own sins and their fathers' unfaithfulness. Daniel has read the Torah's exile provisions and is deliberately performing the act Moses prescribed for reversing the covenant curse. Daniel's own verb form, וָאֶתְוַדֶּה (va'etvaddeh, "and I confessed"), shows him consciously employing the precise Levitical root in his own first-person act of repentance.

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

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Babylonian Exile Trajectory Table