“You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.
⛓ 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.
Felix 'hoped that money would be given to him by Paul' — a corrupt judge angling for a bribe stands in direct contrast to the Torah's prohibition, 'You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of the righteous.' Felix embodies the very corruption the law forbids; medium thematic coherence.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds... and subverts the cause of the righteous' stands ironically behind the priests bribing soldiers to spread a lie; a thematic indictment rather than a verbal quotation.
Low confidence