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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 25:11 → Exodus 21:22

Allusion

Later text

Deuteronomy 25:11BSB

If two men are fighting, and the wife of one steps in to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals,

Earlier text

Exodus 21:22BSB

If men who are fighting strike a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman's husband demands and as the court allows.

Significance

Both Exodus 21:22 and Deuteronomy 25:11 open with the same scenario formula: "If men fight" (כִּי יִנָּצוּ אֲנָשִׁים, ki yinnatsu anashim). Exodus addresses collateral harm to a pregnant bystander, while Deuteronomy addresses an inappropriate intervention by a combatant's wife. The shared opening formula links these as companion rulings within Israel's casuistic law tradition—both regulate the consequences of brawling when third parties are affected. The verbal parallel signals that Israelite legislators recognized these as related cases requiring coordinated legal treatment, with each text addressing a distinct dimension of the same social problem: violence between men and its unintended consequences for others.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Analogy — the shared casuistic opening (כִּי יִנָּצוּ אֲנָשִׁים, "if men fight," Exod 21:22; Deut 25:11) links two companion rulings on third-party involvement in a brawl; neither text develops the other — they stand as analogous cases coordinated by the same formula within Israel's case-law tradition.