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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 21:18 → Exodus 21:15

Allusion

Later text

Deuteronomy 21:18BSB

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,

Earlier text

Exodus 21:15BSB

Whoever strikes his father or mother must surely be put to death.

Significance

Exodus 21:15 assigns the death penalty for striking one's parents, and Deuteronomy 21:18 addresses the related case of a son who is "stubborn and rebellious" (סוֹרֵר וּמוֹרֶה, sorer umoreh)—one who refuses all parental discipline. Both laws protect the authority of parents within Israel's social order, treating parental assault and persistent defiance as equally capital offenses. The connection reveals that the fifth commandment's demand to "honor your father and mother" carried the weightiest possible sanctions, with both physical violence against parents (Exodus) and chronic insubordination (Deuteronomy) threatening the fabric of covenant community life.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Exodus 21:15's capital law against striking father or mother is extended at Moab to the settled case of the incorrigible son: Sinai's single-act offense progresses into a broader category of sustained rebellion, now adjudicated publicly rather than privately.

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Two Covenants (Law and Promise) Trajectory Table