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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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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 17:8 → Exodus 22:7

Allusion

Later text

Deuteronomy 17:8BSB

If a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the place the LORD your God will choose.

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 brings property disputes before "God" (הָאֱלֹהִים, ha'elohim), the local judges, and Deuteronomy 17:8 establishes a central appellate court for cases "too difficult" (כִּי יִפָּלֵא, ki yippale') for local adjudication: "whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults." Deuteronomy creates a hierarchical judicial system where the sanctuary-based tribunal of Levitical priests and judges serves as the supreme court of appeal. Cases that local judges cannot resolve—the kind implied in Exodus 22:7-8—are elevated to this central authority, whose verdict is binding under penalty of death (Deut 17:12).

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the local appearance before הָאֱלֹהִים of Exodus 22:7-8 is developed into a central appellate tribunal for cases too difficult for the gates (Deut 17:8-9) — Israel's judiciary progressing from single-tier Sinai case law to the sanctuary-seated court.