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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
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
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 24:6 → Exodus 22:26

Allusion

Later text

Deuteronomy 24:6BSB

Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one's livelihood 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 prohibits retaining a garment pledge overnight because it is the poor man's essential covering, and Deuteronomy 24:6 extends this principle to another category: "Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one's livelihood as security" (כִּי נֶפֶשׁ הוּא חֹבֵל, ki nefesh hu chovel). Both texts protect items essential to survival from being seized as collateral—a garment for warmth (Exodus) and a millstone for food preparation (Deuteronomy). The Deuteronomic prohibition explicitly names the theological principle: taking essential tools is equivalent to taking a "life" (נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh), because depriving someone of their means of sustenance threatens their very existence.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the pledge-protection principle of Exodus 22:26 is extended from the cloak to the millstones: Deuteronomy names the underlying rationale (taking one's livelihood — נֶפֶשׁ — as security) and so carries the Sinai safeguard forward to a new category of essential life.