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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 7:5-6 → Exodus 20:15

Allusion

Later text

Jeremiah 7:5-6BSB

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 20:15BSB

You shall not steal.

Significance

Exodus 20:15 prohibits theft, and Jeremiah 7:5-6 expands this principle into a positive demand: "truly practice justice between one another" and "do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow." Theft in the prophetic understanding includes not only overt taking but also systematic exploitation of the powerless—withholding what is owed, manipulating the vulnerable, and profiting from others' weakness. Jeremiah's temple sermon demonstrates that the Decalogue's prohibitions imply affirmative obligations: the eighth commandment demands not just abstaining from theft but actively ensuring economic justice within the covenant community.

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

▸ The Decalogue

Jeremiah 7:5-6 → Exodus 20:15

Significance

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