salvation is conditioned disrupts any story line, including that of return from exile.634 14 The exhortation “Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers” bears a biblical allusion that does not appear in its counterpart in 1 Cor 5:9. It recalls the prohibition against plowing with an ox and a donkey yoked together (Deut 22:10; Lev 19:19). It may well also recall the description of Israel’s idolatry in Numbers 25:3, “Israel yoked itself to the Baal of Peor.” The image of being yoked appears in the