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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.

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Intertextuality Pair

Nehemiah 5:1 → Leviticus 25:46

Echo

Later text

Nehemiah 5:1BSB

About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.

Earlier text

Leviticus 25:46BSB

You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But as for your brothers, the Israelites, no man may rule harshly over his brother.

Significance

Leviticus 25:46 explicitly distinguishes between foreign slaves (who may be held permanently) and fellow Israelites: "But as for your brothers, the Israelites, no man may rule harshly over his brother" (לֹא תִרְדֶּה בוֹ בְּפָרֶךְ, lo tirdeh vo befarekh). Nehemiah 5:1 records the great outcry of the post-exilic community against precisely this violation — their own Jewish brothers are subjecting fellow Israelites to the harsh treatment Leviticus reserves only for non-Israelite servants. The people's complaint encompasses debt-slavery, confiscated property, and children forced into bondage, demonstrating a systematic violation of the Levitical distinction between how Israelites and foreigners may be treated in economic relationships.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Leviticus 25:46's line between foreign servants and Israelite brothers ("no man may rule harshly over his brother") is the standard behind the outcry of Nehemiah 5:1; the Mosaic distinction is carried forward and enforced upon the restored community at a later stage of redemptive history.

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