and Yahweh showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 6 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.
'The LORD showed signs and wonders, great and grievous, against Egypt' — a recurrent Deuteronomic formula behind Acts' summary that 'many signs and wonders were done among the people.'
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The Lord 'testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands' (v3). The pair 'signs and wonders' (sēmeia kai terata) is the fixed Septuagintal idiom for the Exodus deliverance, where the Lord 'showed signs and wonders' against Egypt. Thematic Coherence is strong (divine attestation of the messenger); Volume rests on the set two-word phrase. Plausibility high: Luke saturates Acts with Exodus-shaped signs-and-wonders language.
Medium confidence'Signs and wonders' (v.30) is the recurrent Deuteronomic shorthand for the LORD's Exodus deliverance (Deut 6:22; cf. 26:8, 34:11). A reinforcing echo of the same Exodus-deliverance vocabulary; low and contested alongside Exod 7:3.
Low confidence