He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”
⛓ Read Exodus 33 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.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
v.15 'he said to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion' is a verbatim LXX quotation of God's self-revelation to Moses. Grounds divine freedom in mercy and answers the charge of unrighteousness.
High confidenceAllusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'I revealed your name' (v6) draws on the LORD's promise 'I will proclaim before you my name, the LORD.' The pattern of God making his Name known through a mediator coheres with the prayer's theology; Volume modest but the Name-proclamation motif recurs across the chapter (vv11,26).
Medium confidence'I made known to them your name, and will make it known' (v26) reprises 'I will proclaim before you my name, the LORD,' closing the inclusio with v6. The ongoing proclamation of the Name as the vehicle of God's presence and love is coherent and recurrent across the prayer.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'It is my desire to give... Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want with what I own?' (20:14-15) echoes God's sovereign freedom in mercy ('I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious'); thematic, disputed.
Low confidence