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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Psalms 81:9-10 → Deuteronomy 5:7

Allusion

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 5:7BSB

You shall have no other gods before Me.

Significance

Psalm 81:9 commands "There must be no strange god among you" — a liturgical adaptation of the first commandment in Deuteronomy 5:7: "You shall have no other gods before Me" (לֹא יִהְיֶה־לְךָ אֱלֹהִים אֲחֵרִים עַל־פָּנָיַ, lo yihyeh-lekha elohim acherim al-panay). The psalm's formulation substitutes "foreign god" (אֵל נֵכָר/אֵל זָר) for "other gods" (אֱלֹהִים אֲחֵרִים) but preserves the exclusive loyalty demand. By setting the first commandment within a festival celebration context (the psalm references trumpet-blowing and appointed feasts, vv. 3-4), the psalmist shows how covenant law was regularly proclaimed in Israel's worship as a call to renewed fidelity.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the first commandment's demand (Deut 5:7) reappears as festival proclamation in Psalm 81:9 ("There must be no strange god among you"), covenant law re-preached in worship at a later stage of the history of redemption, carrying Sinai's exclusive claim forward to the day the one Lord wins undivided allegiance through His Son.