“You shall not allow a sorceress to live.
⛓ Read Exodus 22 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.
The destruction of magical practice at Ephesus enacts the law's severe stance against sorcery, you shall not permit a sorceress to live. The Ephesians do not kill but burn the apparatus, yet the abolition of magic from the believing community is the same impulse. Coherence high; allusive.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'You shall not allow a sorceress to live' anchors 'sorceries' (pharmakon) in the 9:21 vice-list within the Torah's condemnation of magic; cf. Deut 18:10-11. Supplements the Decalogue echo with the specifically prohibited sin of pharmakeia.
Low confidence