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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
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

Psalm 103:14 → Exodus 33:13

Echo

Later text

Psalm 103:14BSB

For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust.

Earlier text

Exodus 33:13BSB

Now if indeed I have found favor in Your sight, please let me know Your ways, that I may know You and find favor in Your sight. Remember that this nation is Your people."

Significance

Moses' plea in Exodus 33:13, "let me know Your ways, that I may know You" (הוֹדִעֵנִי נָא אֶת־דְּרָכֶךָ, hodi'eni na et-derakhekha), finds an echo in Psalm 103:14, where God "knows our frame" (יָדַע יִצְרֵנוּ, yada yitsrenu) and "is mindful that we are dust." While Moses seeks to know God's ways, the psalmist celebrates that God already knows humanity's weakness — our dusty origin (עָפָר, 'aphar). The connection inverts the direction of knowledge: Moses asks to understand God; the psalm assures that God understands us, and His compassion (v. 13) flows precisely from that knowledge of human frailty.

Found via: John Gill, Exposition of the Entire Bible (1763)
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — the covenant knowledge (ידע) Moses sought ("let me know Your ways, that I may know You," Ex 33:13) and the knowledge Psalm 103:14 celebrates ("He knows our frame") belong to one developing theme of mutual covenant knowing that grounds divine compassion — the ways revealed to Moses (Ps 103:7-8) confessed at last in the High Priest who knows and pities His people's frame because He shared it.