He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
⛓ 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The forty-day fast echoes Moses on Sinai, forty days and nights without bread or water (Exod 34:28; cf. Deut 9:9). Coherence with Jesus as new Moses/Israel; Availability strong, though the dominant frame is Israel's forty years rather than Moses' forty days.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Moses' forty days and forty nights on Sinai (also Exodus 24:18) supplies one of the canonical 'forty days' fasts that Jesus' wilderness sojourn evokes. Volume is the shared numeral and wilderness setting; the Moses typology is coherent with Mark's broader new-Exodus framing, though Mark's brevity keeps it allusive rather than verbal.
Medium confidence◇ Figural1
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
The forty days and forty nights of fasting (v.2) echoes Moses' forty days and nights on Sinai without bread or water (Exod 34:28; also Exod 24:18). Strong verbal and numeric match; the new-Moses typology recurs throughout Matthew (mountain, law-giver).
High confidence