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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 20:16

Echo

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 20:16BSB

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Significance

Exodus 20:16 prohibits false testimony, and Jeremiah 7:5-6 demands truthful justice: "act justly toward one another" (מִשְׁפָּט, mishpat). The ninth commandment protects the judicial process from perjury, while Jeremiah extends this to the entire social fabric—justice must be genuine (not merely formal), impartial (protecting foreigners, orphans, and widows), and comprehensive (governing all community relationships). Jeremiah's temple sermon demonstrates that the Decalogue's truth-telling requirement undergirds the whole covenant order: where false witness prevails, justice collapses, the vulnerable suffer, and God's presence in the temple becomes untenable.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): None

▸ The Decalogue

Jeremiah 7:5-6 → Exodus 20:16

Significance

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