Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.
⛓ Read Exodus 2 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian' reproduces Moses fleeing Pharaoh and dwelling in Midian.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Moses (the deliverer-child threatened at birth) flees to the wilderness/Midian; broad exodus-flight typology behind the woman's flight to a prepared wilderness place. Faint.
Low confidence◇ Figural1
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
Moses flees from Pharaoh who seeks to kill him, paralleling the holy family's flight from Herod who seeks to destroy the child. Herod-as-Pharaoh / Jesus-as-Moses typology; structural rather than verbal, hence figural.
Medium confidence