The Hyperlinked Bible
Intertextuality Pair
Allusion
Later text
For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another, if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,
Earlier text
Exodus 20:13BSB
You shall not murder.
Exodus 20:13 prohibits murder (לֹא תִרְצָח, lo tirtsach), and Jeremiah 7:5-6 extends the principle: "Do not shed innocent blood (דָּם נָקִי, dam naqi) in this place" and "do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow." Jeremiah broadens the sixth commandment's scope from individual acts of killing to systemic social violence—exploitation of the vulnerable is a form of bloodshed. The prophet's temple sermon demands not merely abstinence from murder but active justice (מִשְׁפָּט, mishpat) toward the powerless, demonstrating that true obedience to the Decalogue encompasses both prohibitive and positive dimensions.