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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 21:18-21 → Exodus 21:17

Allusion

Later text

Deuteronomy 21:18-21BSB

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, his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown, and say to the elders, "This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard." Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.

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 anyone who curses (מְקַלֵּל, meqallel) his father or mother, and Deuteronomy 21:18-21 addresses the broader category of a rebellious son who will not obey his parents' voice. The verbal attack on parents (Exodus) and persistent behavioral defiance (Deuteronomy) are both treated as capital offenses because they undermine the foundational social unit of the covenant community. The Deuteronomic expansion adds that the son is characterized as "a glutton and a drunkard" (זוֹלֵל וְסֹבֵא, zolel vesove), suggesting that the rebellion manifests in self-destructive excess, and requires communal judicial proceedings rather than private parental punishment.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the verbal offense of Exodus 21:17 is developed into Deuteronomy's full statute against incorrigible rebellion ("a glutton and a drunkard"), the same fifth-commandment sanction advanced into communal judicial procedure for the covenant community in the land.