Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”
⛓ Read Exodus 1 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.
'Forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn't stay alive' reproduces Pharaoh's edict to cast every newborn son into the river.
High confidence◇ Figural1
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
Pharaoh's decree to kill the male Hebrew infants is recapitulated in Herod's massacre of Bethlehem's boys two years and under. Herod-as-Pharaoh typology with strong structural coherence (tyrant slays infants, deliverer escapes); little verbal overlap, hence figural but high confidence given the sustained Moses pattern.
High confidence