For I lift up my hand to heaven and declare, as I live forever,
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 32 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.
'I lift up my hand to heaven and say, As I live forever' is the source oath formula behind 'lifted up his right hand... swore by him who lives forever.' Strong verbal correspondence (hand to heaven + living-forever oath).
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'I lift up my hand to heaven and swear, As I live forever' (zo ego eis ton aiona) - source of the divine-life formula 'God, who lives forever and ever,' fittingly drawn from the Song of Moses sung in this very chapter. Faint but contextually apt.
Low confidence