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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 22:28-29 → Exodus 22:16-17

Allusion

Later text

Deuteronomy 22:28-29BSB

If a man encounters a virgin who is not pledged in marriage, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are discovered, then the man who lay with her must pay the young woman's father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.

Earlier text

Exodus 22:16-17BSB

If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged in marriage and sleeps with her, he must pay the full dowry for her to be his wife. If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, the man still must pay an amount comparable to the bridal price of a virgin.

Significance

Exodus 22:16-17 and Deuteronomy 22:28-29 are parallel treatments of sexual violation against an unbetrothed virgin. Both require the man to pay the bride-price (מֹהַר, mohar) and marry the woman. Exodus gives the father veto power over the marriage while still requiring payment; Deuteronomy removes the father's veto, adds a specific amount (fifty shekels of silver), and prohibits the man from ever divorcing her. The Deuteronomic expansion strengthens the woman's protection by removing the possibility that the offender could later discard her, reflecting Deuteronomy's consistent pattern of adding humanitarian safeguards to the Exodus legislation.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the parallel statutes mark legal development from Sinai to Moab: bride-price and marriage remain, but Deuteronomy fixes the payment at fifty shekels and removes the offender's power ever to divorce her — the earlier law advanced with added humanitarian safeguard.