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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 21:17

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 21:17BSB

Anyone who curses his father or mother must surely be put to death.

Significance

Exodus 21:17 prescribes death for cursing (מְקַלֵּל, meqallel) one's parents, and Deuteronomy 21:18 addresses the broader pattern of a son who is "stubborn and rebellious" (סוֹרֵר וּמוֹרֶה, sorer umoreh) and "does not obey his father and mother." Both laws treat attacks on parental authority—whether verbal (cursing) or behavioral (chronic disobedience)—as offenses serious enough to warrant the death penalty. The escalation from a single verbal act (Exodus) to a sustained pattern of defiance (Deuteronomy) suggests that cursing parents is symptomatic of the deeper rebellion Deuteronomy describes, with both texts protecting the family order that undergirds Israel's covenant society.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Exodus 21:17's sentence on the one who curses (מְקַלֵּל, meqallel) father or mother progresses into Deuteronomy's treatment of the settled pattern behind the curse — the stubborn and rebellious son — with adjudication moved to the elders at the gate.

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Two Covenants (Law and Promise) Trajectory Table