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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Nehemiah 5:11 → Leviticus 25:46

Echo

Later text

Nehemiah 5:11BSB

Please restore to them immediately their fields, vineyards, olive groves, and houses, along with the percentage of the money, grain, new wine, and oil that you have been assessing them."

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 prohibits ruling over fellow Israelites בְּפֶרֶךְ (beferekh, "with harshness/ruthlessness"), a term deliberately echoing Egypt's treatment of Israel (Exod 1:13-14). Nehemiah 5:11 records Nehemiah demanding that the nobles "restore to them immediately their fields, vineyards, olive groves, and houses" along with usurious charges. The governor's reform addresses the economic oppression that the Levitical law was designed to prevent — wealthy Israelites treating impoverished kinsmen with the very פֶרֶךְ (harshness) that characterized Egypt's bondage. Nehemiah's demand for immediate restitution demonstrates the Levitical principle being enforced by gubernatorial authority in the post-exilic period.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the immediate restitution of Nehemiah 5:11 undoes the harsh rule over brothers that Leviticus 25:46 forbids; the Mosaic brother-standard advances from Sinai legislation to enforced covenant practice in the restored community.

Linked Mentions 1

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Sabbatical Year (Land Rest and Trust) Trajectory Table