He who is emasculated by crushing or cutting shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 23 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.
Paul's wish that the circumcisers would 'cut themselves off' (mutilate/emasculate) trades on the law excluding the emasculated from the assembly of the LORD, a bitterly ironic inversion: those zealous for circumcision are told to go further and be excluded. Coherence and wordplay are strong though the dependence is contested versus a generic castration gibe.
Medium confidence◇ Figural2
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
The eunuch's prior exclusion is defined by the Torah's ruling that one 'wounded in the stones' shall not 'enter into the congregation of the LORD.' Luke's account quietly overturns this barrier; the coherence is high as the legal foil against which the eunuch's incorporation is read. No verbal borrowing, so the link is typological/figural.
Medium confidenceDeuteronomy bars the emasculated from the assembly of the LORD; Jesus' commendation of voluntary 'eunuchs for the kingdom' figurally reverses that exclusion, echoing the Isaian abrogation.
Medium confidence