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Exodus 12:14

The New Testament’s use of Exodus

4 places · 2 kinds of echo · indexing Exodus 12:14, Exodus 12–14

The source

This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.

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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.

1 Cor 11:23-26

'Do this in memory of me' (vv.24-25) mirrors the Passover ordinance that the day be a 'memorial' (zikkaron / LXX mnemosynon) kept perpetually. The memorial-meal logic transfers from Exodus to the Lord's Supper.

Medium confidence
Luke 22:14-20

'Do this in memory of me' transposes the Passover's standing command, 'this day shall be a memorial,' onto the new rite. The memorial (zikkaron) logic of the feast is coherently redirected to Jesus, supporting a deliberate allusion.

Medium confidence

Figural2

A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.

Heb 11:23–31

Faith demonstrated not by citation but by retelling — Moses, the Passover, the sea, Jericho, Rahab compressed into a litany of ‘by faith.’ Figural reuse of whole narratives: the Old Testament itself becomes the cloud of witnesses of 12:1.

High confidence
Matt 26:17-19 ?

the memorial-meal command undergirds Jesus' reconstitution of the Passover as his own memorial in the verses that follow.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Exodus 12
Exodus 12 3Exodus 12:1-14 6Exodus 12:5-6 2Exodus 12:5 2Exodus 12:6 3Exodus 12:8 7Exodus 12:11 5Exodus 12:14-20 2Exodus 12:15 3Exodus 12:15-20 2Exodus 12:23 3Exodus 12:48 2