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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 106:32-33 → Deuteronomy 3:26

Echo

Later text

Psalm 106:32-33BSB

At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them. For they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 3:26BSB

But the LORD was angry with me on account of you, and He would not listen to me. “That is enough,” the LORD said to me. “Do not speak to Me again about this matter.

Significance

Deuteronomy 3:26 records Moses's plea to enter the land and God's refusal: "the LORD was angry with me on account of you." Psalm 106:32-33 retells this episode in liturgical confession: "At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them; for they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips." Both texts assign responsibility to the people's provocation while acknowledging Moses's personal failure. The psalmist adds the interpretive detail that Israel "rebelled against His Spirit" (הִמְרוּ אֶת רוּחוֹ, himru et rucho), deepening the theological analysis beyond Deuteronomy's simpler account of divine anger.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the refused plea of Deuteronomy 3:26 is confessed in Psalm 106:32-33, which adds the interpretive layer that Israel "rebelled against His Spirit," the liturgical retelling advancing the Meribah tradition and pressing beyond a mediator broken by the people's rebellion toward the One who was not.