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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 → Leviticus 20:9

Echo

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

Leviticus 20:9BSB

If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood shall be upon him.

Significance

Leviticus 20:9 declares, "If anyone curses (יְקַלֵּל, yeqallel) his father or mother, he must be put to death," establishing the severity of violating the fifth commandment. Deuteronomy 21:18-21 develops this into a full judicial procedure: both parents must bring the rebellious son (בֵּן סוֹרֵר וּמוֹרֶה, ben sorer umoreh) before the elders, describe his stubbornness, and the community executes him by stoning. The Deuteronomic expansion adds procedural safeguards — both parents must agree, the community judges — and specifies the son's character as a "glutton and a drunkard," preventing arbitrary application. Both texts protect the family structure as foundational to Israelite covenant society, with parental authority treated as a matter of communal survival.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the Levitical death sentence for cursing parents is developed into full judicial procedure at Moab: both parents, the elders at the gate, public charge, communal execution — principle progressing into safeguarded process as Israel's covenant order matures for the land.