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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.

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Intertextuality Pair

Jeremiah 31:31 → Deuteronomy 29:1

Allusion

Later text

Jeremiah 31:31BSB

Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 29:1BSB

These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant He had made with them at Horeb.

Significance

Jeremiah 31:31 explicitly announces a "new covenant" (בְּרִית חֲדָשָׁה, berit chadashah) that "will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers" — the covenant described in Deuteronomy 29:1, which Moses made with Israel "in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant He had made with them at Horeb." The Deuteronomic covenant was characterized by external commandments that Israel failed to keep (Deut 29:4: "to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear"). Jeremiah's new covenant addresses precisely this deficiency — "I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts" (31:33). The contrast between these two covenant-making moments — Deuteronomy's external law on stone and Jeremiah's internalized law on hearts — defines the fundamental difference between old and new covenants. Deuteronomy 29:1 itself already signals the insufficiency of the Horeb covenant by introducing this Moab covenant "in addition to" it—Moses supplementing the covenant anticipatorily where Jeremiah announces its eschatological replacement.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Contrast + Longitudinal Theme — the announced new covenant is defined over against the fathers' covenant ("It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers," 31:32), i.e. the Moab covenant of Deuteronomy 29:1 (Contrast), on the covenant-progression theme from Horeb through the Moab supplement to the promised new covenant (Longitudinal Theme); Deuteronomy 29:1 itself makes no promise that Jeremiah 31:31 fulfills, so Promise-Fulfillment is not demonstrated between these two texts.

▸ The New Covenant

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Trajectory Tables 3

Anchor Texts 1

Jeremiah 31:31-34 — The New Covenant

Jeremiah 31:31 → Deuteronomy 29:1

Significance

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