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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

Leviticus 24:10 → Exodus 22:28

Allusion

Later text

Leviticus 24:10BSB

Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite.

Earlier text

Exodus 22:28BSB

You must not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people.

Significance

Exodus 22:28 prohibits cursing God (אֱלֹהִים לֹא תְקַלֵּל, elohim lo teqallel), establishing the legal principle without specifying the penalty. Leviticus 24:10 provides the test case: a man of mixed Israelite-Egyptian parentage "blasphemed the Name" during a camp quarrel, and Moses consulted the LORD, who prescribed death by stoning. The narrative demonstrates how Exodus's apodictic prohibition required casuistic application when an actual case arose—the penalty, the communal method of execution (all witnesses lay hands on his head), and the universal scope (applying to foreigners as well) were all clarified through this precedent-setting incident.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — from apodictic command to casuistic precedent: Exodus forbids blaspheming God without stating a penalty, and the blasphemer narrative supplies the ruling (death by stoning, applicable to native and foreigner alike), the law's administration unfolding through an actual case brought before the LORD