Behold, I have set before you this day life and prosperity, and death and evil. For I command you this day to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it. But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; I denounce to […]
⛓ 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The law set before Israel 'life and death,' commanding obedience 'that you may live'; this Deuteronomic life-or-death framing of the commandment underlies Paul's 'the commandment which was for life... I found to be for death' (7:10).
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Moses sets before Israel 'life' and 'the way' of obeying the LORD, the choice that is itself 'your life' and the means to dwell in the land. Jesus' self-identification as 'the way... and the life' recasts this Deuteronomic life-through-the-way into a person; Coherence is reinforced by 14:15's love-and-keep-commandments idiom drawn from the same book.
Medium confidenceDoing the words of the covenant yields life and stability — the hear-and-do framing of blessing/endurance.
Low confidence