“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
⛓ Read Exodus 23 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.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The prohibition of joining hands with a wicked man as a malicious witness illumines the narrator's note that they spoke 'testing him, that they might accuse him.' Moderate Coherence: the accusers function as the malicious witnesses the law forbids, an irony built on this statute.
Medium confidenceThe concerted false accusation 'with one accord' before the judgment seat faintly recalls the law against joining a multitude to bring a malicious/false charge.
Low confidence