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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 25:11-12 → Exodus 21:22

Allusion

Later text

Deuteronomy 25:11-12BSB

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, you are to cut off her hand. You must show her no pity.

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

Exodus 21:22 addresses the case where men fighting injure a pregnant woman, prescribing proportional penalties according to the severity of harm. Deuteronomy 25:11-12 deals with a related scenario: a woman who intervenes in a fight between men and seizes the private parts of her husband's opponent, with a specific penalty of cutting off her hand. Both texts regulate third-party harm during male altercations, but with different emphases—Exodus protects the vulnerable (pregnant woman and unborn child), while Deuteronomy addresses an immodest intervention that threatens a man's procreative capacity. Together they illustrate the casuistic method of Israelite law, where related but distinct scenarios receive tailored rulings.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Analogy — companion casuistic rulings under one opening formula ("if men fight"): Exodus weighs harm to a pregnant bystander, Deuteronomy an intervening wife's seizure — analogous scenarios of third-party consequence, coordinated rather than progressive.