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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

Leviticus 19:18 → Exodus 22:21

Echo

Later text

Leviticus 19:18BSB

Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

Earlier text

Exodus 22:21BSB

You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Significance

Exodus 22:21 prohibits oppressing the foreigner (גֵּר, ger): "You must not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt." Leviticus 19:18 commands "love your neighbor as yourself" (וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ, ve'ahavta lere'akha kamokha). The connection extends when Leviticus 19:34 explicitly applies the love command to foreigners: "You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself." Exodus's negative prohibition (do not oppress) evolves into Leviticus's positive command (actively love), with both grounded in the same exodus memory. The foreigner protected by Exodus 22 is the neighbor whom Leviticus 19 commands Israel to love.

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

▸ Love Your Neighbor

Linked Mentions 1

Anchor Texts 1

Leviticus 19:18 — Love Your Neighbor as Yourself

Leviticus 19:18 → Exodus 22:21

Significance

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