Exodus Exodus 12:1-20
The blood goes on the outside of the door, where the family inside cannot see it — because it is a sign for God to read; and the verb the feast is named for does not mean to skip but to shelter, YHWH himself hovering over the marked house while the destroyer passes through Egypt.
Genesis Genesis 32:1-32
At the night-ford of the Jabbok, the grasper meets the One he cannot supplant. A wordplay triangle, a saturating face-motif, and the new name Israel — he strives with God and prevails, blessed and limping at the dawn.
Genesis 6:9-22
The toledot of Noah opens with the first canonical tsaddiq, runs through the only OT verse where atonement-noun and atonement-verb co-occur, makes the first canonical covenant, and closes with a sentence that recurs nearly word-for-word when Moses finishes the tabernacle. The Hebrew lexicon discloses Noah's ark as the canonical first iteration of the covenant-sanctuary-atonement cycle the rest of the Old Testament builds out.
Isaiah 53:4–6
Three ancient witnesses — the Masoretic Text, the Septuagint, and the Dead Sea Scrolls — preserve Isaiah's portrait of vicarious suffering. Where they agree and diverge reveals how ancient readers understood the cost of peace.