Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.” Yahweh said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
⛓ Read Exodus 32 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Rejoicing that your names are written in heaven invokes the divine book from which the unfaithful may be blotted out, first named in Moses' intercession. Volume and the heavenly-register concept are strong, anchoring the saying in the book-of-life tradition.
High confidenceBlotting a name out of God's written book. Strong verbal+thematic correspondence (Hays: volume, recurrence) to 3:5 'blot his name out of the book of life.' Exodus has 'my book'/'your book'; Revelation adds 'of life' (βίβλος τῆς ζωῆς). LXX and Hebrew agree on the blotting idiom.
High confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Blot me out of your book which you have written... whoever has sinned I will blot out' — the originating 'book' of the living/registered, behind 'the book of life.' Hays: distinctive book-of-life lemma. LXX Exod 32:32.
Medium confidence'blot me out of thy book which thou hast written... whosoever hath sinned... will I blot out of my book' — the divine register of the living/saved; foundational for the book-of-life motif alongside Ps 69:28.
Medium confidence