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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 5:7 → Exodus 22:25-27

Allusion

Later text

Nehemiah 5:7BSB

and after serious thought I rebuked the nobles and officials, saying, "You are exacting usury from your own brothers!" So I called a large assembly against them

Earlier text

Exodus 22:25-27BSB

If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest. If you take your neighbor's cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset, because his cloak is the only covering he has for his body. What else will he sleep in? And if he cries out to Me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.

Significance

Nehemiah 5:7 records the governor's rebuke: "You are exacting usury (מַשָּׁא, masha) from your own brothers!" — directly invoking the violation of Exodus 22:25, which prohibits acting as a creditor (נֹשֶׁה, noseh) toward poor Israelites. The Hebrew terms share the same root נשׁא/נשׁה, connecting lending-at-interest to a form of burden-bearing or oppression. By calling a "large assembly" to confront the nobles, Nehemiah employs public accountability to enforce what the Sinai covenant mandated: that loans to the poor within Israel be acts of covenantal solidarity, not instruments of economic exploitation.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Nehemiah's rebuke "You are exacting usury from your own brothers!" enforces Exodus 22:25's prohibition against acting as creditor to a poor brother; the Sinai statute is carried forward from founding legislation to public covenant enforcement in the post-exilic assembly.