“When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are numbered among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when you number them; that there be no plague among them when you number them.
⛓ Read Exodus 30 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.
The atonement money, a ransom for each life given at the census so that no plague befall them, supplies the cultic background for Christ giving himself as 'a ransom for all.' The Hebrew kopher / lytron concept of a redemptive price for life stands behind Paul's ransom language. The universalizing 'for all' extends the Exodus ransom to all humanity.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The atonement-money 'ransom for his life' paid at the census supplies cultic background for lytron, 'ransom.' It frames a life-price offered to redeem. Contested and low: Mark's ransom is more directly Isaianic (53:10-12), but the redemption-price vocabulary is available here.
Low confidenceEach Israelite gives a 'ransom (lytra) for his life' at the census so that no plague falls; background to the ransom-price (lytron) vocabulary, though Jesus' self-gift transcends the cultic fee.
Low confidence