Yahweh delivered to me the two stone tablets written with the finger of God On them were all the words which Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 9 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 tablets "written with the finger of God" supply the other major OT use of the idiom, framing the finger as God's direct, unmediated agency. Recurrence of the phrase reinforces the Exodus 8:19 allusion behind 11:20.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Deuteronomy 9:10 describes 'two tables of stone written with the finger of God' bearing the commandments — the engraved-on-stone law Paul calls the ministry of death/condemnation. A faint corroborating echo of the stone-engraving tradition.
Low confidence