Don’t say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, saying, “For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land”; because Yahweh drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations. Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may […]
⛓ 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.
'Not of yourselves... not of works' echoes Moses' insistence that Israel possesses the land 'not because of your righteousness' but by God's gift. The covenantal grace-not-merit logic coheres tightly with Paul's anti-works argument.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Moses warns Israel not to say 'in their heart' that their own righteousness has earned the land — the seed of the 'establish their own righteousness' motif. The 'do not say in your heart' formula recurs verbatim in 10:6, so its conceptual root here (self-righteousness vs. God's gift) is a plausible anticipatory echo.
Low confidence