“Sanctify to me all of the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of animal. It is mine.”
⛓ 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.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
'Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord' renders the consecration of the firstborn, 'sanctify to me every firstborn that opens the womb.' Luke marks it 'as it is written,' so this is a formal quotation; the firstborn-belongs-to-God theme tracks the prototokos of v. 7.
High confidenceAllusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Luke pointedly calls Jesus Mary's 'firstborn son' (prototokos), the same charged term governing the consecration of every firstborn to the LORD in Exodus. The label anticipates the redemption/presentation in vv. 22-23, so its volume is reinforced by recurrence within the chapter; coherence with the firstborn-belongs-to-God theme is high.
Medium confidence