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Exodus 13:7

The New Testament’s use of Exodus

3 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and no leavened bread shall be seen with you, neither shall yeast be seen with you, in all your borders.

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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 5:6-8

'Unleavened bread shall be eaten... neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters' parallels 'keep the feast... with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.' Strong Coherence: the Feast of Unleavened Bread is the explicit referent of Paul's 'let us keep the feast.'

High confidence
Gal 5:7-12

The reinforcing command that no leaven be seen in all your borders during the feast undergirds the same purity image. Recurrence across the Exodus leaven texts strengthens the figural force of contamination spreading through the community.

Medium confidence

Echo1

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Matt 16:5-12 ?

Reinforces the leaven-as-defilement imagery from the Feast of Unleavened Bread, where no leaven may be seen within the borders. Secondary to Exodus 12:15.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Exodus 13
Exodus 13:2 2Exodus 13:16 2Exodus 13:21 4Exodus 13:21-22 2