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.
Quotation2
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
Moses' words at Sinai, inaugurating the first covenant in blood. Hebrews quotes them to make blood the necessary seal of any covenant — and so to read Christ's death as the blood that ratifies the new one: ‘apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.’
High confidence'this is my blood of the covenant' (v28) verbally appropriates Moses' words at Sinai, 'Behold the blood of the covenant which the LORD has made with you'; Jesus' blood ratifies the covenant as the sacrificial blood once did.
High confidenceAllusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'This cup is the new covenant in my blood' (v.25) fuses Moses' words at Sinai, 'the blood of the covenant,' with covenant-inauguration sacrifice. High volume via the covenant+blood pairing and strong coherence; the Supper is presented as a covenant-ratifying meal.
High confidence'This cup is the new covenant in my blood' depends on Moses' covenant ratification, 'Behold the blood of the covenant which the LORD has made with you,' sprinkled to seal Israel to God. Strong verbal and conceptual contact (blood + covenant) makes this a primary subtext for the cup-word.
High confidence'This is my blood of the covenant' formally echoes Moses' words at Sinai, 'Behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you,' as he dashes sacrificial blood on the people. The verbal correspondence (haima tes diathekes) is exact and the coherence high: Jesus enacts a covenant-ratifying blood rite that recapitulates and surpasses Sinai. This is the load-bearing intertext of the cup-word.
High confidenceEcho4
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Redemption through his blood' coupled with covenant draws on the blood of the covenant Moses dashed on the people, 'the blood of the covenant the LORD has made.' Thematic coherence (blood ratifying covenant deliverance) is solid; volume is moderate because Ephesians names redemption and forgiveness rather than covenant explicitly.
Medium confidenceThe blood of the covenant sprinkled on the people seals the relationship and consecrates them, a background for the cleansing blood that secures fellowship. A faint covenantal resonance.
Low confidence‘The covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt’ (v. 9) points, through Jeremiah's words, back to the Sinai covenant ratified in blood at Exod 24:8 — the ‘first covenant’ Hebrews names as now ‘old.’ Thematic coherence with the blood-of-the-covenant argument Hebrews makes explicit at 9:18–20; faint here, low volume.
Low confidence"Justified by his blood" (5:9) may faintly recall the blood of the covenant Moses dashed on the people, sealing the relationship with God. Disputed as a deliberate echo here versus general sacrificial background.
Low confidence