You shall not eat any abominable thing. These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the chamois. Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the cud, among the animals, that may you eat. Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof cloven: the camel, the hare, and the […]
⛓ 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.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The Deuteronomic restatement of the food laws (clean/unclean beasts, birds, swarming things; 'you shall not eat any abomination') is the parallel legislative source for Peter's scruple about eating the unclean. High coherence; included alongside Leviticus 11 as the second pillar of the dietary code.
High confidenceThe Deuteronomic restatement of the clean/unclean animal law stands behind Peter's scruple alongside Leviticus 11. Lower volume than Leviticus (no distinctive verbal pickup unique to Deuteronomy), but the same legal substrate the vision overturns.
Medium confidenceDeuteronomy's parallel dietary legislation ('You shall not eat any abominable thing') reinforces the Levitical clean/unclean backdrop to the eating dispute. The 'weak in faith' who eat only vegetables may be observing scruples derived from this Torah food law (and/or avoiding marketplace meat of uncertain provenance).
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Deuteronomy 14 is the parallel statute of clean and unclean foods that, with Leviticus 11, constitutes the dietary law Jesus' pronouncement on foods addresses. Equally available as the OT food-purity background to 'purifying all foods.'
High confidence