AI-generated connections. Each carries a verification badge with a recorded basis; contested links are flagged.
The bride-price: môhar binds the seduction-law to Shechem and Saul verbal / quotation — confirmed
The rare noun môhar (H4119) and its cognate verb mâhar (H4117) occur in only a handful of places. The Verifier records the shared lexeme between Exodus 22:16–17 and Genesis 34:12 (Shechem's offer for Dinah) and 1 Samuel 18:25 (Saul's deadly "bride-price" of a hundred Philistine foreskins for Michal). Because môhar appears in only three verses, the link is genuinely verbal, not merely thematic — the law and the two narratives speak the same technical word for the price paid for a wife.
Exodus 22:16 · Exodus 22:17 · Genesis 34:12 · 1 Samuel 18:25
basis: Verifier (Exod 22:17 ↔ Gen 34:12): shared H4119 môhar (in only 3 vv — rare), plus H5414 nâthan; (Exod 22:17 ↔ 1 Sam 18:25): shared H4119 môhar. The rarity of môhar (3 occurrences) makes this a confirmed verbal link, not a generic motif.
Seduced vs. betrothed: the deliberate contrast with Deuteronomy 22 verbal / quotation — confirmed
Exodus 22:16 governs the seduction of a girl who is not betrothed (אֹרָשָׂה, ’ōrāśāh, H781). The Verifier ties it to Deuteronomy 22:23–24 and 22:28 by the shared cluster ’âras ("betroth"), bᵉthûlâh ("virgin"), and shâkab ("lie with"). Cambridge reads the relationship as a deliberate legal contrast: the seduction of a betrothed maiden "is regarded as virtually the same thing as adultery" (Deut 22:23–27), whereas Deut 22:28–29 treats rape, not seduction. The verbal overlap is real; the relationship the laws draw is one of graded cases sharing a vocabulary.
Exodus 22:16 · Deuteronomy 22:23 · Deuteronomy 22:28
basis: Verifier (Exod 22:16 ↔ Deut 22:28): shared H781 ʼâras (in 10 vv — distinctive), H1330 bᵉthûwlâh (50 vv), H7901 shâkab (190 vv). The distinctive ʼâras anchors a confirmed verbal kinship among the marriage-and-virginity laws.
The sorceress: a six-verse lexeme across the Law and the Prophets verbal / quotation — confirmed
The verb kâshaph (H3784), "to practice sorcery," appears in only six verses of the Hebrew Bible. The Verifier links Exodus 22:18 to Deuteronomy 18:10 (the locus classicus against divination), Malachi 3:5 (where the sorcerer is judged beside those who oppress the widow and orphan), 2 Chronicles 33:6 (Manasseh's apostasy), Daniel 2:2, and Exodus 7:11 (Pharaoh's magicians). Cambridge notes that v. 18 uses the unique feminine form of the noun. Because the lexeme is so rare, the network is verbal: one word stitches the Sinai law to the prophetic indictment and the historical narrative of Judah's worst king.
Exodus 22:18 · Deuteronomy 18:10 · Malachi 3:5 · 2 Chronicles 33:6 · Exodus 7:11
basis: Verifier (Exod 22:18 ↔ Deut 18:10): shared H3784 kâshaph (in only 6 vv — rare). The same rare lexeme recurs in Mal 3:5, 2 Chron 33:6, Dan 2:2, Exod 7:11 (Verifier candidate set), making a confirmed verbal thread.
The protected triad: sojourner, widow, and orphan as a covenant formula structural / thematic — confirmed
Exodus 22:21–24 names the three classic dependents — the gêr (sojourner, H1616), the ’almânâh (widow, H490), and the yâthôwm (orphan, H3490). The Verifier links the passage to Deuteronomy 24:17, Job 24:3, Ezekiel 22:7, and Jeremiah 22:3 by these recurring words. These lexemes are not rare individually (the orphan-word alone spans 42 verses), so the connection is best read as a fixed thematic formula of covenant compassion rather than a quotation. The synthesis under-claims here on purpose: this is a shared pattern, not a verbal citation.
Exodus 22:21 · Exodus 22:22 · Deuteronomy 24:17 · Ezekiel 22:7 · Jeremiah 22:3
basis: Verifier (Exod 22:22 ↔ Deut 24:17): shared H3490 yâthôwm (42 vv), H490 ʼalmânâh (54 vv); (Exod 22:21 ↔ Mal 3:5 / Ezek 22:7): shared H1616 gêr (83 vv). Lexemes are common, not rare — downgraded to a confirmed thematic formula, not a verbal quotation.
Malachi gathers the scattered crimes of Exodus 22 into one oracle of judgment verbal / quotation — confirmed
One prophetic verse converges on this unit from two directions at once. Malachi 3:5 names the LORD drawing near "to judgment," and the very crimes Exodus 22 lists separately — the sorcerer (v. 18) and the oppressors of the widow, the orphan, and the sojourner (vv. 21–22) — Malachi binds into a single sentence of indictment. The Verifier records both links: the rare lexeme kâshaph ("sorcerer," H3784, in only 6 vv) is genuinely verbal, while the widow/orphan/sojourner words (H490 ’almânâh, H3490 yâthôwm, H1616 gêr) are common, so that strand is thematic. The badge tiers the thread by its weakest verifiable element honestly: the sorcerer-word carries the verbal weight; the social triad is a shared covenant pattern, not a quotation. What the law scatters as discrete statutes, the prophet hears as one cry God will answer.
Exodus 22:18 · Exodus 22:21 · Exodus 22:22 · Malachi 3:5
basis: Verifier (Exod 22:18 ↔ Mal 3:5): shared H3784 kâshaph (in only 6 vv — rare), confirming a verbal link on the sorcerer-word; (Exod 22:22 ↔ Mal 3:5): shared H490 ʼalmânâh (54 vv), H3490 yâthôwm (42 vv) — common lexemes, a thematic (not verbal) overlap on the protected-triad. The rare kâshaph anchors the badge; the social-triad strand is flagged as thematic within the body.
The firstfruits: mᵉlê’âh, the three-verse word for the full yield verbal / quotation — confirmed
Exodus 22:29's archaic mᵉlê’âh ("fullness," H4395) is a rare lexeme found in only three verses. The Verifier ties it to Numbers 18:27 (the tithe "like the fulness from the wine-vat") and Deuteronomy 22:9 (the produce of a vineyard sown with mixed seed that must not be forfeited). Keil independently cross-references Deuteronomy 22:9 for the word's sense. Because the term is so rare, the link is verbal — the same uncommon word for the offered first-yield binds the firstfruits law to the tithe-law.
Exodus 22:29 · Numbers 18:27 · Deuteronomy 22:9
basis: Verifier (Exod 22:29 ↔ Num 18:27): shared H4395 mᵉlêʼâh (in only 3 vv — rare). The rarity of the lexeme confirms a verbal link among the first-yield / tithe laws.
"Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler": Paul's quotation in Acts 23:5 flagged — verify source
In Acts 23:5 Paul, rebuked for reviling the high priest, quotes Exodus 22:28 almost verbatim from the Greek: "Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people." This is an explicit New-Testament citation — Benson, Barnes, and Cambridge all note it. But it is a cross-Testament link (Greek ↔ Hebrew): the Verifier finds no shared Strong's lexeme in its index, because the testaments are numbered separately and the connection runs through the Septuagint, not a common Hebrew word. Per the unit's rules, such a link cannot be tiered "verbal" on Strong's grounds, and the bare cross-Testament basis is flagged for the reader to verify against the LXX text rather than assert from a lexeme match.
Exodus 22:28 · Acts 23:5
basis: Verifier (Exod 22:28 ↔ Acts 23:5): no shared original-language lexeme in the index — a cross-Testament (Greek↔Hebrew) link that runs through the LXX, not a common Strong's number. It is an explicit, widely-recognized NT citation, but cannot be Strong's-verbal; flagged so the reader checks the Greek of Acts against the LXX of Exod 22:28 directly.