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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 81:9-10 → Deuteronomy 5:6

Quotation

Later text

Psalms 81:9-10BSB

There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you bow to a foreign god. I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth, and I will fill it.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 5:6BSB

"I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Significance

Psalm 81:10 directly quotes the Decalogue preamble: "I am the LORD your God (אָנֹכִי יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ, anokhi YHWH Elohekha), who brought you up out of Egypt" — the formula of Deuteronomy 5:6, "who brought you out of the land of Egypt." By embedding the Decalogue preamble in a festival psalm, the psalmist transforms the Sinai covenant introduction into liturgical worship, reminding each generation of worshipers that the God they serve is the God of the Exodus. The quotation anchors the psalm's conditional promise of blessing (vv. 13-16) in the Sinai covenant's historical foundation: obedience is owed to the specific God who accomplished specific redemption.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Psalm 81:10 re-proclaims the Decalogue preamble ("I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt," cf. Deut 5:6) within Israel's festival liturgy, the Sinai covenant charter re-administered to each later generation as redemptive history advances — until the greater exodus accomplished in Christ grounds the same summons to exclusive devotion.