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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 7:9 → Exodus 20:5

Allusion

Later text

Deuteronomy 7:9BSB

Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.

Earlier text

Exodus 20:5BSB

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Significance

Exodus 20:5 describes the LORD as "a jealous God" (אֵל קַנָּא, el qanna) who visits iniquity on the third and fourth generations of those who hate Him, while showing covenant loyalty (חֶסֶד, chesed) to thousands who love Him. Deuteronomy 7:9 echoes this same dual character: "the faithful God (הָאֵל הַנֶּאֱמָן, ha'el hane'eman) who keeps His covenant and His loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments." Deuteronomy shifts emphasis from jealous punishment to faithful covenant-keeping, expanding the "thousands" of Exodus 20:6 into an explicit "thousand generations." Both texts define God's character by the same asymmetry: judgment extends to three or four generations, but faithfulness extends to a thousand.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme

▸ The Decalogue

Linked Mentions 1

Anchor Texts 1

Exodus 20 — The Decalogue

Deuteronomy 7:9 → Exodus 20:5

Significance

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