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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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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 23:19 → Exodus 22:25

Allusion

Later text

Deuteronomy 23:19BSB

Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.

Earlier text

Exodus 22:25BSB

If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.

Significance

Exodus 22:25 prohibits charging interest (נֶשֶׁךְ, neshekh) to the poor among God's people, and Deuteronomy 23:19 broadens this to all fellow Israelites: "Do not charge your brother interest" (לֹא תַשִּׁיךְ לְאָחִיךָ, lo tashikh le'achikha). Deuteronomy extends the scope from "the poor" specifically to all covenant "brothers," regardless of economic status, and expands the covered items from money alone to money, food, and "any other type of loan." This development reflects the fraternal basis of the prohibition—within God's covenant family, financial transactions must express solidarity rather than exploitation.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Exodus 22:25's ban on interest from the poor of God's people is broadened at Moab to every brother and every kind of loan (money, food, any loan) — the lending ethic advanced from poverty-specific mercy to a covenant-wide fraternal rule.