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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 24:17 → Exodus 22:26

Allusion

Later text

Deuteronomy 24:17BSB

Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow's cloak as 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 protects the poor man's garment from being permanently retained as a pledge, and Deuteronomy 24:17 extends this protection specifically to the widow: "do not take a widow's cloak as security" (לֹא תַחֲבֹל בֶּגֶד אַלְמָנָה, lo tachavol beged almanah). Deuteronomy identifies the widow as a particularly vulnerable class that receives absolute protection—her garment may not be taken as pledge at all, not merely returned by sunset as in the general Exodus rule. This escalation from conditional protection (return by sunset) to absolute prohibition (never take it) reflects Deuteronomy's characteristic concern for the most defenseless members of the covenant community.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the conditional garment-pledge protection of Exodus 22:26 escalates to absolute prohibition for the widow ("do not take a widow's cloak as security"), the Sinai safeguard advanced to shield the most defenseless entirely.