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Exodus 34:1

The New Testament’s use of Exodus

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

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.

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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.

2 Cor 3:1-3 ?

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
2 Cor 3:7-11

'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.

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Exodus 34
Exodus 34:6-7 6Exodus 34:6 14Exodus 34:14 2Exodus 34:28 3Exodus 34:29-35 5Exodus 34:29 3Exodus 34:35 3