and in the wilderness, where you have seen how that Yahweh your God bore you, as a man does bear his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.”
⛓ 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.
Paul exhorts 'as a father his own children' (v. 11), echoing 'the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son (hos ei tis trophophoresei... huion).' Deuteronomy's paternal image of God forming Israel through the wilderness coheres with Paul's claim to have fathered a people and called them to walk worthily (v. 12). Pairs with the maternal-nurse figure of v. 7.
Medium confidence'The LORD your God carried (bore) you as a father carries his son' lies behind the well-attested variant 'he bore/nursed them' for forty years; even in the 'put up with them' reading, Deut 1:31's wilderness-forbearance is the matrix. Textual-critical note: etropophoresen vs etrophophoresen.
Medium confidence