Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.
⛓ Read Exodus 25 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.
God commands a sanctuary 'that I may dwell among them,' the foundational text for the divine indwelling presence. Paul transfers this dwelling to the community: 'you are a temple of God, and God's Spirit lives in you.' The figural relocation of God's tabernacling presence into the church coheres strongly with the dwelling-among-them promise.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'A habitation of God in the Spirit' / 'holy temple' echoes the sanctuary command 'let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.' God's indwelling of a built structure is the controlling OT temple-presence theme Paul transfers to the church.
Medium confidence◇ Figural1
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
'Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit' (v.19) figurally transfers the sanctuary motif, 'let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them,' onto the believer's body as God's indwelt dwelling. The Spirit-indwelling makes the body holy space; medium volume as a figural reapplication of tabernacle theology.
Medium confidence