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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 23:19-20 → Exodus 22:25

Allusion

Later text

Deuteronomy 23:19-20BSB

Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan. You may charge a foreigner interest, but not your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything to which you put your hand in the land that you are entering to possess.

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, literally "a bite") on loans to the poor among God's people. Deuteronomy 23:19-20 broadens and clarifies this prohibition: "Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan" but permits charging interest to a foreigner (נָכְרִי, nokhri). This distinction between brother and foreigner reveals the covenantal basis of the interest prohibition—within the covenant community, lending must express solidarity rather than profit, while commercial transactions with outsiders follow different norms. Deuteronomy also expands the categories from Exodus's focus on money to include food and any lendable goods.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the נֶשֶׁךְ prohibition progresses from Exodus's protection of the poor to Deuteronomy's brother/foreigner distinction covering money, food, and any loan — the same covenant-solidarity principle carried forward and codified for the land's economy.