You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 14 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.
Israel addressed as 'children of the LORD your God' grounds John's astonishment that believers 'should be called children of God.' The divine-sonship status, once Israel's covenant identity, is here extended to the community. John intensifies the relation with the language of bestowed love.
High confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'You are the children of the LORD your God' supplies the divine-sonship category recast as the 'right to become God's children' (v.12). Low confidence; the sonship-of-God-people motif is broad across the OT.
Low confidence'You are children of the LORD your God' — divine-sonship language behind 'that you may be children of your Father.'
Low confidence'You are the children of the LORD your God' — Israel as God's children, background to the children-vs-dogs (Israel-vs-Gentiles) contrast of 15:26.
Low confidence