He said, “Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”
⛓ Read Exodus 3 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.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'I am with you always' is the divine-presence/commissioning formula God speaks to Moses at the bush: 'I will be with you.' The promise that secures a commissioned agent for an impossible task is given here by the risen Jesus, claiming the role of God-with-his-people.
High confidence'And serve me in this place' grafts the burning-bush promise ('ye shall serve God upon this mountain') onto the Genesis 15 prophecy, fusing the two great promises of worship after deliverance.
Medium confidence'I will be with you' grounds Moses' sending; the same assurance underwrites Paul's mission in Corinth. The call-narrative pattern (objection met by promise of presence) shapes the vision.
Medium confidence