“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
⛓ Read Exodus 20 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.
Quotation4
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
Verses 2-3 quote the Decalogue commandment verbatim from the LXX: 'Honor your father and mother, that it may be well with you and that you may live long.' Volume is maximal (explicit citation formula 'which is the first commandment with a promise'). Paul reads the Sinai command as still binding catechesis for Christian households.
High confidenceJesus cites the Decalogue commandment 'Honor your father and your mother' (attributed to Moses) as the divine command that Corban casuistry nullifies. Direct verbal quotation; the antithesis between this commandment and the tradition is the argument's spine.
High confidence'Honor your father and your mother' cited verbatim as 'the commandment of God' (Mt 15:4), the fifth word of the Decalogue, set against the Corban evasion.
High confidence'Honor your father and mother' verbatim from the Decalogue (Exodus 20:12 / Deuteronomy 5:16).
High confidenceAllusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The duty of children and grandchildren to 'repay their parents' and show piety to their own family applies the Decalogue's command to honor father and mother. Caring for an aged widowed parent is the concrete fulfillment of filial honor that pleases God.
High confidence'Disobedient to parents' inverts the fifth commandment to honor father and mother. The vice catalog functions in part as a reversal of the Decalogue, listing the breaking of commands as a sign of last-days lawlessness.
Medium confidence"Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord" rests on the Decalogue's command to honor father and mother. Medium coherence; obedience-to-parents framed as pleasing God draws directly on the fifth commandment, the one OT command structuring filial duty.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Treating older men as fathers and older women as mothers extends the Decalogue's command to honor father and mother to the wider church family. The familial honor owed to parents becomes the template for intergenerational respect in the congregation.
Medium confidence