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Deuteronomy 16:16

The New Testament’s use of Deuteronomy

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Three times in a year all of your shall males appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tents. They shall not appear before Yahweh empty.

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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.

John 7:10-13

'When his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up' enacts the Deuteronomic requirement that every male 'appear before the LORD' three times a year, Booths being one. The going-up language and the search 'at the feast' (v.11) presuppose the pilgrim crowds the law gathers. Coherence with the festival frame is strong though the verbal contact is general.

Medium confidence

Echo1

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Acts 18:18-23 ?

Paul's resolve to 'keep this coming feast in Jerusalem' (v.21) reflects the pilgrimage-feast obligation to appear before the LORD at the appointed feasts in Jerusalem.

Low confidence