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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.

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Intertextuality Pair

Deuteronomy 17:2-7 → Exodus 22:7-8

Allusion

Later text

Deuteronomy 17:2-7BSB

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 and going to worship other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven—which I have forbidden— and if it is reported and you hear about it, you must investigate it thoroughly. If the report is true and such an abomination has happened in Israel, you must bring out to your gates the man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you must stone that person to death. On the testimony of two or three witnesses a man shall be put to death, but he shall not be executed on the testimony of a lone witness. Deuteronomy 17:6 The hands of the witnesses shall be the first in putting him to death, and after that, the hands of all the people. So you must purge the evil from among you.

Earlier text

Exodus 22:7-8BSB

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. If the thief is not found, the owner of the house must appear before the judges to determine whether he has taken his neighbor's property.

Significance

Exodus 22:7-8 directs property disputes to be brought before "God" (the judges), and Deuteronomy 17:2-7 establishes procedures for the most serious offense—covenant violation through idolatry. Both texts require careful judicial investigation, but Deuteronomy adds crucial safeguards: thorough investigation (דָּרַשׁ הֵיטֵב, darash hetev, "investigate thoroughly"), the requirement of two or three witnesses (not just one), and the stipulation that witnesses must cast the first stones. This development shows Israelite jurisprudence maturing from Exodus's compact case law into Deuteronomy's procedurally detailed system with built-in protections against false accusation.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Exodus's bring-it-before-God case law matures into Deuteronomy's safeguarded capital procedure — thorough investigation, two or three witnesses, the witnesses' hands first — jurisprudence advanced from compact ruling to protected process.