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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

Psalms 15:1-5 → Deuteronomy 16:16

Echo

Later text

Psalms 15:1-5BSB

A Psalm of David. O LORD, who may abide in Your tent? Who may dwell on Your holy mountain? He who walks with integrity and practices righteousness, who speaks the truth from his heart, who has no slander on his tongue, who does no harm to his neighbor, who casts no scorn on his friend, who despises the vile but honors those who fear the LORD, who does not revise a costly oath, who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 16:16BSB

Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.

Significance

Psalm 15 asks who may dwell in God's tent and stand on His holy mountain, answering with ethical qualifications. Deuteronomy 16:16 commands "Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God at the place He will choose" — the three pilgrimage festivals. The psalm's entrance-liturgy question reflects the practical reality of these pilgrimage requirements: when Israelite males appeared before the LORD (יֵרָאֶה, yera'eh, literally "shall be seen") at the chosen place, the entrance liturgy would establish who was morally qualified to enter the sacred precinct. The psalm thus functions as the gate-keeping counterpart to Deuteronomy's pilgrimage mandate.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme