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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 17:2 → Exodus 22:7

Allusion

Later text

Deuteronomy 17:2BSB

If a man or woman among you in one of the towns that the LORD your God gives you is found doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God by transgressing His covenant

Earlier text

Exodus 22:7BSB

If a man gives his neighbor money or goods for safekeeping and they are stolen from the neighbor's house, the thief, if caught, must pay back double.

Significance

Exodus 22:7 directs property disputes to be brought before "God" (הָאֱלֹהִים, ha'elohim)—the judges who render verdicts on God's behalf—when theft from a neighbor's house is suspected. Deuteronomy 17:2 introduces a parallel judicial procedure for covenant violations: "If a man or woman among you... is found doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God by transgressing His covenant." Both texts address cases requiring elevated judicial authority—Exodus for property disputes, Deuteronomy for apostasy—demonstrating that Israel's legal system recognized distinct categories of offenses requiring different levels of judicial competence, from local judges to the central tribunal at the chosen sanctuary (Deut 17:8-9).

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the adjudication-before-God pattern of Exodus 22:7-8 progresses into Deuteronomy's ordered procedure for covenant violation: report, thorough investigation, and due process at the gate — Sinai's compact judicial seed grown toward the tiered system of Deut 17:8-9.