Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, “All that Yahweh has spoken will we do, and be obedient.” Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words.”
⛓ 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Beyond the quoted clause (v. 8), the whole narrative frame of vv. 19–20 — Moses reading ‘every commandment to all the people,’ then sprinkling — retells Exod 24:6–8. Hebrews adds details (water, scarlet wool, hyssop, sprinkling the book) not in Exod 24, conflating it with the purification rites (Num 19; Lev 14): high recurrence of the sprinkling motif drives the link.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The covenant ratification in which Moses applies the blood and the people pledge obedience associates blood with sealed testimony. John's blood-witness to the Son parallels the blood that confirmed the covenant. A faint covenantal-blood backdrop to the witnessing blood.
Low confidence