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Exodus 25:8-9

The New Testament’s use of Exodus

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you shall make it.

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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.

Figural2

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

John 1:14-18

'The Word became flesh and lived (eskēnōsen, 'tabernacled') among us' deliberately evokes the sanctuary that God commanded so he might 'dwell among them.' The tabernacle-pitching verb is the load-bearing figural cue: the incarnate Word is the new tent of meeting. High volume and thematic coherence.

High confidence
John 14:1-4 ?

'Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them' establishes the tabernacle as God's dwelling, the OT substrate John reworks when Jesus prepares an eternal dwelling-place and elsewhere reads his own body as the temple. Figural rather than verbal; the connection runs through John's larger temple Christology more than through 14:2 itself.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Exodus 25
Exodus 25:8 3Exodus 25:18-22 2Exodus 25:40 3