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Exodus 40:34

The New Testament’s use of Exodus

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

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Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and Yahweh’s glory filled the tabernacle.

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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.

Allusion1

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Rev 15:5-8

'The cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle; Moses could not enter' (Exod 40:34-35) is the direct source of 'the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God... no one was able to enter.' Verbal+thematic core; ties the heavenly naos to the wilderness tabernacle named in v.5.

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Echo1

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

2 Cor 12:7-10 ?

The phrase that 'the power of Christ may rest on me' (lit. 'tabernacle/dwell upon me,' episkenoo) faintly evokes the glory that 'filled the tabernacle' and overshadowed it at its consecration. Faint but offered because Paul's verb is cognate to tabernacle/skene, suggesting the indwelling Shekinah-glory now resting on the apostle's weak body.

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Elsewhere in Exodus 40
Exodus 40:34-35 3