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Exodus 29:18

The New Testament’s use of Exodus

3 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

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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.

Allusion3

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Eph 5:1-2

Christ's self-offering as 'a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance' directly takes up the cultic formula for the ram of ordination, 'a burnt offering... a pleasing aroma, an offering by fire to the LORD.' High volume (the technical sacrificial idiom osme euodias) and recurrence across the Pentateuch make this a clear cultic appropriation applied to Christ.

High confidence
Phil 4:14-20

Paul calls the Philippians' gift 'a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God,' adopting the cultic formula 'a pleasing aroma, an offering by fire to the LORD' from the sacrificial law. Volume is high on the pleasing-aroma + acceptable-sacrifice language, and coherence is strong as Paul recasts material aid as acceptable cultic offering.

High confidence
2 Cor 2:14-17

The ordination ram offered as 'a pleasing aroma, an offering by fire to the LORD' supplies priestly-consecration coloring to Paul's self-presentation as a fragrant offering in service of God. The ordination context coheres with Paul's apostolic vocation. Medium on shared formula.

Medium confidence