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Exodus 24:12

The New Testament’s use of Exodus

3 places · 3 kinds of echo

The source

Yahweh said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them.”

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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.

2 Cor 3:1-3

The contrast 'not on tablets of stone' deliberately evokes the stone tablets God gave Moses, which Exodus 24:12 first announces ('the tables of stone, and the law, and the commandment, which I have written'). Volume is high (verbal 'tablets of stone') and the whole chapter is a sustained reading of the Sinai narrative, satisfying coherence and availability.

High confidence

Echo1

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Matt 28:16-20 ?

Jesus teaching the nations to observe 'all that I commanded you' on a mountain casts him in a Moses-on-Sinai role giving authoritative commandments; a figural new-Sinai resonance consistent with Matthew's Moses typology.

Low confidence

Figural1

A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.

Matt 5:1-12

Moses summoned up the mountain to receive the tablets of law and commandment; the Sermon's mountain setting figurally recasts the giving of Torah.

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Exodus 24
Exodus 24:4 5Exodus 24:6-8 2Exodus 24:8 9Exodus 24:16 3