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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

Deuteronomy 15:12 → Exodus 21:1

Allusion

Later text

Deuteronomy 15:12BSB

If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you must set him free.

Earlier text

Exodus 21:1BSB

"These are the ordinances that you are to set before them:

Significance

Exodus 21:1 introduces the Hebrew slave laws (מִשְׁפָּטִים, mishpatim), stipulating that a Hebrew servant serves six years and goes free in the seventh. Deuteronomy 15:12 restates this law but adds a significant humanitarian expansion: the master must not send the freed slave away empty-handed but must supply him liberally from flock, threshing floor, and winepress. Deuteronomy's version explicitly includes female slaves ("If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, is sold to you") and grounds the generosity requirement in Israel's exodus memory: "Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt" (Deut 15:15). This development transforms the Exodus law's focus on legal duration into a call for compassionate provision.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the Hebrew-servant release of Exodus 21:2 is re-promulgated at Moab with exodus-shaped generosity: liberal provision at release and the ground "Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt" — Sinai's manumission law advanced into redemption-patterned compassion.

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Sabbatical Year (Land Rest and Trust) Trajectory Table