You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it.' Direct source for the add/take-away canonical-formula warning. Strong verbal correspondence (prostithemi / aphaireo). LXX and Hebrew agree.
High confidenceDo not add to or take from the commandment; 'not one jot or tittle shall pass' affirms the law's inviolability in the same spirit.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Holding 'the pattern of sound words' and guarding 'that good thing committed to you' draws on the Deuteronomic charge to add nothing and take nothing from the commanded word but to keep it. The deposit-of-teaching motif reflects covenant-word preservation.
Low confidence