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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 → Leviticus 25:46

Echo

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

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 forbids harsh rule (פֶּרֶךְ) over fellow Israelites, distinguishing how brothers must be treated from how non-Israelite servants may be held. Nehemiah 5:7 records the governor confronting the nobles for "exacting usury from your own brothers" — charging interest (מַשָּׁא) on loans to fellow Jews, a practice that amounts to the economic harshness Leviticus prohibits. Nehemiah's public assembly to address this abuse applies the Levitical distinction between permissible treatment of outsiders and the required generosity toward fellow covenant members, demanding that the wealthy stop treating their kinsmen as sources of profit.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the rebuke of Nehemiah 5:7 applies Leviticus 25:46's ban on harsh rule over Israelite brothers to the nobles' interest-taking; the Mosaic brother-distinction advances from Sinai legislation into enforced practice in the restored community.

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