Yahweh said to Moses, “Chisel two stone tablets like the first: and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
⛓ Read Exodus 34 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.
Exodus 34:1 ('Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first') supplies the renewed-covenant tablets that frame the very Exodus 34 narrative Paul exposits across the chapter. Coherence with the chapter's overall theme is strong, though the specific stone-tablet phrase is drawn from the whole cluster.
Medium confidence'The service of death, written engraved on stones' identifies the Mosaic ministry with the stone tablets of the renewed covenant in Exodus 34:1. The 'engraved on stones' phrase links the glory of Moses' face specifically to the inscribed Decalogue, a figural reading of the Exodus 34 tablets.
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