The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.
⛓ Read Exodus 4 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.
'He has visited (epeskepsato)... his people' echoes the Exodus visitation, 'the Lord had visited the people of Israel' to deliver them (Exodus 4:31; cf. Genesis 50:24-25). The divine-visitation-for-rescue idiom frames the redemption as a new exodus.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The acclamation 'God has visited his people' echoes the language of divine visitation by which Israel recognized God's saving action in the Exodus and was moved to worship. The 'visitation' motif recurs in Luke (1:68, 78; 19:44), giving it thematic recurrence even though no single passage is cited verbatim.
Low confidence