When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. When she has departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife. If the latter husband hates her, and write her a bill of divorce, and puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter […]
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 24 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.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
The 'certificate of divorce' Moses 'allowed' is a direct invocation of the Mosaic divorce statute, named explicitly as Moses' command. Jesus cites it precisely in order to subordinate it as a concession to 'hardness of heart.' Explicit attribution to Moses makes this an unambiguous, high-Volume citation.
High confidenceAllusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The divorce-and-remarriage saying directly engages the Mosaic certificate-of-divorce legislation, which Jesus reads against the grain by classing remarriage as adultery. Availability and coherence are decisive; this is the legal text the dictum addresses, framed by v.17's claim on the Law.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The release of a woman from the 'law of the husband' by death (7:2-3) trades on Torah marriage/divorce regulation; Deuteronomy 24 frames the legal binding and loosing of a wife that Paul presupposes.
Low confidence