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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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Intertextuality Pair

Deuteronomy 22:1-4 → Exodus 23:4-5

Quotation

Later text

Deuteronomy 22:1-4BSB

If you see your brother's ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it; be sure to return it to your brother. If your brother does not live near you, or if you do not know who he is, you are to take the animal home to remain with you until your brother comes seeking it; then you can return it to him. And you shall do the same for his donkey, his cloak, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it. If you see your brother's donkey or ox fallen on the road, you must not ignore it; you must help him lift it up.

Earlier text

Exodus 23:4-5BSB

If you encounter your enemy's stray ox or donkey, you must return it to him. If you see the donkey of one who hates you fallen under its load, do not leave it there; you must help him with it.

Significance

Exodus 23:4-5 commands returning a straying animal (even an enemy's) and helping an overburdened donkey, while Deuteronomy 22:1-4 restates both laws with expanded scope and emphasis on the prohibition against indifference: "You must not ignore it" (לֹא תוּכַל לְהִתְעַלֵּם, lo tukhal lehit'allem). Deuteronomy's version replaces "enemy" with "brother," adds lost garments and other possessions to the categories requiring return, and uses the emphatic double verb construction (הָשֵׁב תְּשִׁיבֵם, hashev teshivem) to underscore the obligation. Both legal collections establish active neighborly responsibility rather than passive non-interference as the ethical standard.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the Book of the Covenant's stray-animal and fallen-donkey laws are restated with enlarged scope (cloak, anything lost) and emphatic obligation (הָשֵׁב תְּשִׁיבֵם), Sinai case law progressing into Moab's fuller ethic of active brotherly responsibility.