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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

Jeremiah 31:30 → Deuteronomy 24:16

Allusion

Later text

Jeremiah 31:30BSB

Instead, each will die for his own iniquity. If anyone eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 24:16BSB

Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.

Significance

Jeremiah 31:30 promises that under the new covenant "each will die for his own iniquity" (בַּעֲוֹנוֹ יָמוּת, ba'avono yamut), echoing the Deuteronomic legal principle of individual responsibility: "Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin" (Deut 24:16). Jeremiah applies this principle eschatologically — in the new covenant era, the proverb "The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge" (31:29) will no longer apply. The connection shows Jeremiah drawing on Deuteronomic case law to articulate the new covenant's transformation: while corporate solidarity defined the old covenant's judgment pattern, the new covenant will emphasize personal accountability, resolving the tension between inherited guilt and individual responsibility that troubled exilic theology.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the judicial principle of Deut 24:16 (each dies for his own sin) is carried forward into the new-covenant promise: Jeremiah 31:29-30 announces the end of the sour-grapes proverb as redemptive history turns from the old covenant's corporate judgment pattern to the new covenant's personal accountability and inward law (31:31-34); Mosaic case law becomes the seed of the eschatological covenant Christ inaugurates.