Yahweh’s glory settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
⛓ Read Exodus 24 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.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The Sinai theophany supplies Mark's frame: the glory of the LORD settled on the mountain, the cloud covered it six days, and on the seventh day God called to Moses out of the cloud. Mark's 'after six days,' the high mountain, the overshadowing cloud, and the voice from the cloud reproduce this cluster with high volume and tight coherence. The Transfiguration is staged as a new Sinai.
High confidenceThe glory of the LORD settles on Sinai and the cloud covers it 'six days,' and on the seventh day God calls Moses out of the cloud. Matthew's opening 'after six days' plus the high mountain, the cloud, and the divine voice from the cloud reproduce this Sinai theophany sequence with striking specificity; the strongest structural anchor for the new-Sinai reading.
High confidence'The glory of the LORD shone around them' renders the Septuagintal doxa kyriou, the visible Sinai/tabernacle glory that settled and shone. Luke uses the technical theophany vocabulary, giving real volume; coherence is high as the kabod now attends the announcement of salvation.
Medium confidence