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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

Deuteronomy 1:9 → Exodus 18:13

Allusion

Later text

Deuteronomy 1:9BSB

At that time I said to you, "I cannot carry the burden for you alone.

Earlier text

Exodus 18:13BSB

The next day Moses took his seat to judge the people, and they stood around him from morning until evening.

Significance

Exodus 18:13 describes Moses sitting to judge (שָׁפַט, shafat) the people from morning until evening, and Deuteronomy 1:9 records Moses' retelling: "At that time I said to you, 'I cannot carry the burden for you alone.'" Both texts narrate the same event—the overwhelming burden of sole adjudication—but from different perspectives: Exodus presents Jethro's observation and advice, while Deuteronomy recasts it as Moses' own speech to the new generation. The Deuteronomic retelling omits Jethro entirely, attributing the judicial reform initiative to Moses himself, which reflects Deuteronomy's rhetorical purpose of presenting Moses as Israel's authoritative mediator and lawgiver.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Deuteronomy 1:9 is Moses's Moab retelling of the Exodus 18:13 scene of solitary adjudication from morning until evening: the same delegated-judgment reform is carried forward a stage in redemptive history, from Jethro's counsel at Sinai to the covenant constitution of the generation about to enter the land.