Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 4 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.
2:13 hearing-versus-doing reflects Moses' charge to 'listen (hear) to the statutes... and do them, that you may live,' the Deuteronomic pairing of shema and asah that Paul splits to indict mere hearers.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Listen to the statutes and rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live.' The hear-and-do-that-you-may-live formula resonates with James's promise that the doer of the work will be blessed.
Low confidence