When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.
⛓ 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.
Moses 'neither ate bread nor drank water forty days and forty nights' (Deut 9:9, 18) parallels Jesus' fast; Matthew's Deuteronomic quotation chain makes this Deuteronomy theophany-fast a likely background to the forty-day frame.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Fasting as preparation for receiving divine direction recalls Moses' wilderness fasting before God. Faint, generic; included for maximal coverage.
Low confidence