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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 34:14 → Leviticus 25:35

Allusion

Later text

Jeremiah 34:14BSB

Every seventh year, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who has sold himself to you. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free. But your fathers did not listen or incline their ear.

Earlier text

Leviticus 25:35BSB

Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you.

Significance

Both Jeremiah 34:14 and Leviticus 25:35 address the treatment of impoverished Israelite brothers within the covenant community. Leviticus 25:35 commands "Now if your countryman becomes destitute… then you are to help him," and the chapter prohibits permanent servitude because "They are My servants" (עֲבָדַי, avadai; 25:42, 55) — redeemed from Egypt, they belong to God. Jeremiah invokes this same covenantal logic when condemning the re-enslavement of freed Hebrews: the people had proclaimed a release (דְּרוֹר, deror) but then reversed it, violating the Levitical principle that covenant brothers are God's possession, not objects of permanent human ownership. The violation becomes the basis for God's ironic judgment: having refused to release their brothers, God "releases" them to sword, plague, and famine (34:17).

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — Jeremiah invokes the Levitical principle that covenant brothers are God's redeemed possession and may not be permanently enslaved, an installment of the redemption-grounds-release theme that runs from the exodus through the Jubilee to redemption in Christ.

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