When you vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack to pay it; for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you. But if you refrain from making a vow, it shall be no sin in you. You shall observe and do that which has gone out of your lips. Whatever you have vowed to Yahweh your God as a freewill offering, which you have promised with your mouth, you must do.
⛓ 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Vows to the LORD must be paid and not delayed; reinforces the obligation-to-perform clause Jesus cites.
Medium confidenceDeuteronomy's vow law ('when you make a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not delay to pay it... that which has gone out of your lips you shall keep') reinforces the irrevocability that makes Corban exploitable. A secondary witness to the vow background behind 7:11-12.
Low confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The law on vows — that one must perform what is sworn and that refraining from vowing is no sin — is the legal background to James's counsel against swearing.
Medium confidenceThe law that a vow to the LORD must be paid and is not to be trifled with underlies Jesus' attack on evasive oath distinctions (vv16-22).
Medium confidenceVows to the LORD must be paid and not delayed — the legal background that made Corban vows seem inviolable, which Jesus exposes as a pretext.
Low confidence