“You shall have no other gods before me.
⛓ 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Idolatry' as the head of the cultic vices echoes the Decalogue's first/second commandments against other gods and images. Availability and recurrence are high; idolatry is the paradigmatic covenant breach the prophets repeatedly indict.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'You shall have no other gods before me' — making wealth a rival master is functional idolatry, the first commandment's exclusivity reframed as God versus Mammon.
Low confidence