I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him. You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 1 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Nicodemus' 'Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally?' (v.51) applies the Mosaic charge to judges, 'hear the cases between your brothers and judge righteously... you shall not be partial.' The duty to hear a party before condemning is the procedural core of the Deuteronomic judicial code. High coherence with the chapter's 'judge righteous judgment' (v.24).
High confidenceThe charge to judges, 'judge righteously... you shall not be partial in judgment... you shall not be afraid of the face of man,' undergirds 'judge righteous judgment' (v.24) and anticipates Nicodemus' procedural appeal (v.51). Recurrence within the chapter strengthens the figural reading of impartial judgment. Verbal overlap is with the 'righteous judgment' idiom.
Medium confidence