When Yahweh saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the midst of the bush, and said, “Moses! Moses!” He said, “Here I am.”
⛓ 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.
Allusion4
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'A voice of the Lord came to him' reproduces God calling to Moses out of the midst of the bush.
High confidenceThe doubled vocative 'Saul, Saul' from heaven mirrors the theophanic double-address by which God calls his chosen agents — 'Moses, Moses' from the burning bush. The pattern (light/fire, voice, prostration, commission) frames Paul's conversion as a prophetic call-narrative.
High confidence'Moses, Moses' — the doubled-vocative call from a blazing divine manifestation, answered before commission. 'Saul, Saul' matches the convention. Recurrence is strong across the OT call type-scenes (Gen 22:11; 46:2; 1 Sam 3:10), which strengthens rather than dilutes the echo.
Medium confidence'Moses, Moses' from the burning bush is the closest formal parallel: a doubled-name call out of blinding/luminous divine presence that commissions the hearer. Strong thematic and formal coherence with Paul's vocation-by-theophany.
Medium confidence