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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

Psalm 106:32-33 → Deuteronomy 4:21

Allusion

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 4:21BSB

The LORD, however, was angry with me on account of you, and He swore that I would not cross the Jordan to enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Significance

Deuteronomy 4:21 states that "The LORD, however, was angry with me on account of you" (הִתְאַנַּף יְהוָה בִּי עַל דִּבְרֵיכֶם, hit'annaf YHWH bi 'al divreikhem) and swore that Moses would not cross the Jordan to enter the "good land" given as inheritance. Psalm 106:32-33 provides the liturgical retelling: "At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them; for they rebelled against His Spirit." Both texts link Moses's exclusion from the promised land to the people's sin, but Deuteronomy frames it as divine anger directed at Moses on Israel's behalf, while the psalm names Meribah as the specific location and adds that Moses "spoke rashly with his lips." Together, the texts present Moses's exclusion as a paradigm of how communal sin has consequences even for the faithful mediator.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Deuteronomy 4:21's inheritance-forfeiture ("He swore that I would not cross the Jordan") is located by Psalm 106:32-33 at the waters of Meribah and confessed as communal guilt, the psalm carrying Moses's exclusion forward as a paradigm of how sin bars entry — answered when the sinless Mediator crosses ahead of His people.