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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

Proverbs 3:21 → Deuteronomy 6:6

Allusion

Later text

Proverbs 3:21BSB

My son, do not lose sight of this: Preserve sound judgment and discernment.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 6:6BSB

These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.

Significance

Proverbs 3:21 urges "do not lose sight of this" (אַל־יַלֻּזוּ מֵעֵינֶיךָ, al-yalluzu me'einekha) -- preserve sound judgment and discernment -- echoing Moses's insistence in Deuteronomy 6:6 that God's words remain "upon your hearts." Both passages share the concern that divine instruction not slip away from conscious attention; in Deuteronomy the danger is forgetting Yahweh amid Canaan's prosperity, while in Proverbs the danger is losing focus on wisdom amid life's distractions. The sage assumes the Deuteronomic framework -- the father-son instructional setting, the imperative to keep (נָצַר, natsar) wisdom inwardly -- and applies it to the cultivation of תּוּשִׁיָּה (tushiyyah, "sound wisdom") and מְזִמָּה (mezimmah, "discernment"), virtues the wisdom tradition treats as the practical outworking of covenant faithfulness.

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