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For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them, as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?
⛓ 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.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Eph 2:11-12
'Without God in the world,' contrasted with Israel's nearness, inverts Moses' boast that no nation has a god so near as YHWH is to Israel. The privilege of covenantal nearness sets up the Gentiles' former exclusion.
Medium confidenceActs 17:22-31 ?
'What nation has a god so near to it as the LORD?' supports the nearness theme of v.27; faint.
Low confidenceElsewhere in Deuteronomy 4