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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Amos 4:4 → Deuteronomy 14:28

Allusion

Later text

Amos 4:4BSB

"Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 14:28BSB

At the end of every three years, bring a tenth of all your produce for that year and lay it up within your gates.

Significance

Amos 4:4 sarcastically commands Israel to "bring your tithes every three days," a biting distortion of Deuteronomy 14:28's instruction to bring tithes (מַעְשַׂר, ma'aser) every three years for the Levite, sojourner, orphan, and widow. Amos compresses the triennial cycle into three days to mock Israel's zealous religiosity -- they multiply cultic acts while ignoring the social justice purposes the tithe system was designed to serve. The irony exposes a worship that is quantitatively excessive but qualitatively empty, divorcing ritual observance from its covenantal intent of caring for the marginalized.

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