that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you. You shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 26 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.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Calling the household of Stephanas 'the firstfruits of Achaia' applies the Deuteronomic firstfruits rite—the first of the produce consecrated to God—figurally to the first converts of a region. Volume rests on the loaded term 'firstfruits' (aparche), and the consecration-of-the-first logic gives genuine coherence.
Medium confidenceA textual variant of v.13 reads 'as firstfruits' (aparchen) rather than 'from the beginning'; the firstfruits offering commanded here would then stand behind believers chosen as firstfruits for salvation.
Medium confidence