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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

Malachi 1:8 → Deuteronomy 15:21

Allusion

Later text

Malachi 1:8BSB

When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present the lame and sick ones, is it not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor?" asks the LORD of Hosts.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 15:21BSB

But if an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

Significance

Malachi 1:8 asks rhetorically "When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present the lame and sick ones, is it not wrong?" -- directly citing the disqualifying defects of Deuteronomy 15:21: "If it has any defect -- is lame (פִּסֵּחַ, pisseach) or blind (עִוֵּר, ivver) -- you shall not sacrifice it." The shared vocabulary of specific physical defects (lame, blind) creates an unmistakable verbal link. Malachi's rhetorical strategy forces the priests to judge themselves by their own Torah: offering such animals to a human governor would be insulting, yet they present them to the LORD of Hosts without shame.

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