“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 5 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.
Quotation3
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
The Deuteronomic recension of the Fifth Commandment is the more exact verbal parallel: it adds 'that it may be well with you' (eu soi genetai), which Eph 6:3 reproduces against Exodus' shorter form. The dual availability of both Decalogue versions explains Paul's conflated wording; Deuteronomy supplies the well-being clause.
High confidenceParallel Decalogue form of 'Honor your father and mother'; Jesus' citation may carry the Deuteronomic as well as Exodus wording. Same commandment, recurrence reinforces.
High confidenceThe Deuteronomic form of the honor-parents commandment is an equally valid source for 'Honor your father and your mother,' since Mark's citation could draw on either Decalogue. Listed as a parallel availability alongside Exodus 20:12; the verbal match is exact in both.
Medium confidenceAllusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The Deuteronomic recension of "honor your father and mother" equally underlies the children's clause and its promise of well-being. Reinforces the Exod 20:12 link; the obey-and-it-goes-well-with-you logic coheres with "for this pleases the Lord."
Medium confidence