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Intertextuality Pair
Allusion
Later text
He sent them a prophet, who told them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. I delivered you out of the hands of Egypt and all your oppressors. I drove them out before you and gave you their land. And I said to you: ‘I am the LORD your God. You must not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.’ But you did not obey Me.”
Earlier text
"I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before Me.
The unnamed prophet's speech in Judges 6:8-10 draws on the Decalogue's preamble and first commandment from Exodus 20:2-3. He first recites the exodus-deliverance formula — "I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery" (Judges 6:8) — the covenant-preamble language that recurs across the canon (cf. Exod 13:14; 20:2; Deut 5:6; Jer 34:13). He then speaks the self-predication that anchors the first commandment — "I am the LORD your God" (Judges 6:10, אֲנִי יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם), the very formula that opens Exodus 20:2 — before charging Israel, "You must not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell" (Judges 6:10), echoing Exodus 20:3's prohibition against other gods. This prophetic indictment uses Sinai covenant language to diagnose Israel's Midianite oppression as the direct consequence of covenant violation. The prophet grounds his accusation in the very words God spoke at Sinai, making the connection between disobedience and judgment explicit.