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.”
⛓ Read Exodus 13 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 '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 confidenceParallel phylactery command ('a sign on your hand and frontlets between your eyes') stands behind the broadened phylacteries of v5.
Medium confidence