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Exodus 19:5

The New Testament’s use of Exodus

4 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;

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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.

Allusion3

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

1 Pet 2:4-10 ?

"a people for God's own possession" (2:9) renders laos eis peripoiēsin, echoing the 'peculiar treasure/possession' (laos periousios / segullah) of Exodus 19:5; reinforces the Sinai covenant frame alongside Exod 19:6, and resonant with Mal 3:17 / Isa 43:21.

High confidence
Eph 1:13-14

'You shall be my own possession among all peoples' (segullah / LXX laos periousios) underlies 'the redemption of God's own possession.' Recurrence with Deut 7:6 and 14:2 and thematic coherence (covenant possession claimed and redeemed) reinforce the allusion; the volume on the possession concept is high.

High confidence
Titus 2:11-14

'Purify for himself a people for his own possession' (v.14) draws on 'you shall be my treasured possession (peculiar people) above all peoples.' The covenant election of a treasured people is reapplied to the church redeemed by Christ.

High confidence

Echo1

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

Acts 15:12-21

'A people for his name' (v.14) echoes the Sinai promise that Israel would be God's 'treasured possession out of all peoples' — the foundational election text now applied to the nations. Recurrence with Deut 7:6 / 14:2.

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Exodus 19
Exodus 19:6 5Exodus 19:16-19 6Exodus 19:16-18 3Exodus 19:16 5Exodus 19:18 7