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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 24:10 → Exodus 22:26

Allusion

Later text

Deuteronomy 24:10BSB

When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.

Earlier text

Exodus 22:26BSB

If you take your neighbor's cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,

Significance

Exodus 22:26 requires returning a garment taken as pledge (חֲבֹל, chavol) before sunset because it is the poor man's only covering. Deuteronomy 24:10 adds a procedural safeguard: "When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security." This restriction prevents the creditor from entering the debtor's home to select the most valuable item, instead requiring the debtor to bring the pledge outside voluntarily. Deuteronomy develops the Exodus protection from a rule about return timing to a comprehensive regulation of the pledge-collection process itself, preserving the debtor's dignity and domestic privacy.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the garment-pledge rule of Exodus 22:26 is developed procedurally: the creditor must stand outside while the debtor brings the pledge out (Deut 24:10-11) — protection of the poor advanced from return-by-sunset to regulated, dignity-preserving collection.