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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
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

Micah 7:19 → Leviticus 16:22

Echo

Later text

Micah 7:19BSB

He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.

Earlier text

Leviticus 16:22BSB

The goat will carry on itself all their iniquities into a solitary place, and the man will release it into the wilderness.

Significance

Micah 7:19 promises that God "will vanquish our iniquities" and "You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea," resonating with the scapegoat ritual of Leviticus 16:22, where the goat "will carry on itself all their iniquities" (כָּל־עֲוֺנֹתָם, kol ʿăwōnōtām) "into a solitary place" (אֶרֶץ גְּזֵרָה, ʾereṣ gezērāh). Both texts envision the complete removal of sin to an inaccessible place — the wilderness in Leviticus, the sea depths in Micah.

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

The warrant is a shared motif, not a demonstrable citation. The two verses hold one content word in common — ʿāwôn, "iniquity," a stock term across the Hebrew Bible — so the tie is thematic convergence rather than verbal dependence. It should also be read with care as to direction: Micah's sea-imagery more naturally routes to the Song of the Sea (Exodus 15), where Pharaoh's host is cast into the deep, and the closest scholarship on Micah does not connect the verse to Leviticus 16 or Azazel at all. Micah is best read as prophetic redeployment of the canon-wide sin-removal theme — of which the Day of Atonement rite is the great enacted instance — rather than as an exposition of that rite.

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Trajectory Tables 2

Anchor Texts 1

Leviticus 16 — The Day of Atonement

Micah 7:19 → Leviticus 16:22

Significance

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