You shall be perfect with Yahweh your God.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 18 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.
'You shall be blameless/perfect (tamim) before the LORD your God' — the LXX 'teleios' here closely matches 'be perfect.'
High confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'You shall be perfect/blameless with the LORD your God' stands behind Jesus' 'if you would be perfect,' framing discipleship as covenantal completeness.
Medium confidence'You shall be blameless before the LORD your God' supplies the Deuteronomic counterpart to imitating God as beloved children. Faint verbal contact; flagged because the prompt invokes the broader Deuteronomic perfection-before-God strand undergirding the imitatio Dei command.
Low confidence