The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
⛓ 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'The people grew and multiplied in Egypt' reproduces 'the children of Israel were fruitful... and multiplied,' the population explosion that triggers oppression.
High confidence'The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied' — set immediately after Pharaoh's failed oppression, exactly as 'the word of God grew and multiplied' caps Herod's failed persecution. The exodus-typology of Acts 12 makes this growth-after-tyrant verbal echo deliberate.
Medium confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Israel 'was fruitful... and multiplied and grew exceedingly mighty.' Acts 6:7's growth refrain ('the word of God increased and the number of the disciples multiplied... exceedingly') deliberately reuses Septuagintal multiplication language, casting the church's expansion as a new Exodus-style flourishing of God's people. Recurrence is strong: this refrain runs through Acts.
Medium confidence'He made the people great (exalted them) during their stay in Egypt' echoes the multiplication of Israel in Egypt, who grew exceedingly numerous. Conceptual; the LXX verb differs.
Low confidence'The assemblies... increased in number daily' recalls the Septuagintal language of Israel multiplying and increasing greatly in Egypt (cf. Genesis 1:28); a recurring Lukan growth-formula casting the church as the multiplying covenant people.
Low confidence