You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out of Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty.
⛓ 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The family's annual Passover pilgrimage to Jerusalem enacts the Torah requirement that all appear before the LORD at the appointed feasts, the first being Unleavened Bread/Passover. The pilgrimage-feast obligation gives the scene its legal frame and coherence with Luke's law-observant family.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread... as I commanded thee' is a further iteration of the festal command Paul reworks in 'let us keep the feast.' Low confidence, offered for Availability and Recurrence within the Pentateuch's repeated feast legislation.
Low confidence