lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away this day from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 29 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.
Peter's diagnosis that Simon is 'in the gall of bitterness' draws directly on the Deuteronomic warning against the apostate heart that is 'a root that beareth gall and wormwood.' Volume is high (the distinctive 'gall'/bitterness collocation), thematic coherence is exact (a covenant member whose heart turns from God), giving a strong verbal allusion.
High confidence‘Any root of bitterness springing up’ (v. 15) is near-verbatim with Deut 29:18 LXX (‘a root springing up in bitterness/gall’). High volume and recurrence within the apostasy-warning theme. The LXX reads ‘root springing up in gall and bitterness’ where the Hebrew has ‘root bearing poison/wormwood’ — Hebrews follows the Greek.
High confidence