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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Deuteronomy 14:21 → Exodus 23:19

Quotation

Later text

Deuteronomy 14:21BSB

You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.

Earlier text

Exodus 23:19BSB

Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.

Significance

Exodus 23:19 prohibits cooking "a young goat in its mother's milk" (לֹא תְבַשֵּׁל גְּדִי בַּחֲלֵב אִמּוֹ, lo tevashel gedi bachalev immo), and Deuteronomy 14:21 repeats the prohibition verbatim. This is one of only three laws repeated three times in the Torah (also Exod 34:26), underscoring its significance. The prohibition likely opposes a Canaanite fertility ritual that perverted the natural maternal relationship between mother and offspring, using the life-giving substance (milk) to prepare the very creature it was meant to nourish. The triple repetition across three distinct legal contexts (Book of the Covenant, Covenant Renewal, Deuteronomic Code) ensures this boundary between Israelite and Canaanite worship practice cannot be overlooked.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the identical prohibition ("You must not cook a young goat in its mother's milk") is carried verbatim through three covenant codes — Book of the Covenant, Sinai covenant renewal, and Moab — re-promulgated at each advancing stage of the covenant relationship.