Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand”; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 15 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.
'Is your eye evil because I am good?' (20:15) uses the Semitic idiom of the 'evil eye' (ophthalmos ponēros) for grudging stinginess; Deut 15:9 warns against the eye being 'evil' (begrudging) toward a needy brother — the exact moral idiom Jesus inverts (here it is the workers who begrudge the master's generosity).
Medium confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The warning against an "evil eye" toward the needy poor supplies the negative pole of the sound/evil eye antithesis. Contested idiomatic background to the dark-body saying.
Low confidenceMark's vice 'an evil eye' (ophthalmos poneros) is a Semitic idiom for stinginess/grudging that appears in Deuteronomy 15:9 ('your eye be evil against your poor brother'). The phrase in the vice-list plausibly draws on this OT idiom for ungenerous malice. Idiomatic availability; volume faint.
Low confidenceWarning against a 'wicked' (mean/evil) eye toward the needy brother — the evil eye as ungenerous miserliness, contextually fitting the eye/lamp logion's placement amid wealth teaching.
Low confidence