You shall fear Yahweh your God; you shall serve him; and you shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 10 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit' (v.17) plays on the LXX language of cleaving/being joined (kollao) to the LORD found in Deut 10:20 ('him shall you cleave to'), the covenantal counter-image to illicit bodily union. Coherence is strong given the deliberate contrast Paul builds between the two kinds of joining.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Barnabas's exhortation 'that with purpose of heart they should remain near to (cleave to) the Lord' echoes the Deuteronomic and Joshuanic charge to 'cleave unto the LORD your God' with the whole heart. Thematic coherence high (covenant loyalty of heart); verbal resonance on cleaving/holding fast; moderate volume.
Medium confidence