For this commandment which I command you this day is not too hard for you or too distant.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 30 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.
'His commandments are not grievous' closely echoes Moses' insistence that 'this commandment which I command you this day is not too hard for you, neither is it far off.' Both texts answer an anticipated objection that God's law is an unbearable weight. The shared logic is that those rightly related to God find his demands livable, not crushing.
High confidenceThe immediately preceding verse — 'this commandment is not too hard for you, nor is it far off' — sets up the not-in-heaven/not-beyond-the-sea contrast Paul exploits. Borrowed context for the 'word is near' argument even though only vv.12-14 are quoted.
Medium confidence