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Exodus 13:16

The New Testament’s use of Exodus

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

It shall be for a sign on your hand, and for symbols between your eyes: for by strength of hand Yahweh brought us out of Egypt.”

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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.

Rev 13:16-18

The 'mark... on their right hands, or on their foreheads' parodies the Passover/Exodus sign: 'it shall be for a sign upon your hand, and for frontlets between your eyes' (Exod 13:16; cf. 13:9, epi tes cheiros... pro ophthalmon). The beast's mark counterfeits Israel's covenant sign (and the seal of Rev 7:3; 14:1).

High confidence
Matt 23:1-12

Parallel phylactery command ('a sign on your hand and frontlets between your eyes') stands behind the broadened phylacteries of v5.

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Exodus 13
Exodus 13:2 2Exodus 13:7 3Exodus 13:21 4Exodus 13:21-22 2