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Exodus 6:6

The New Testament’s use of Exodus

7 places · 3 kinds of echo

The source

Therefore tell the children of Israel, ‘I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments:

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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.

Quotation1

A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.

Acts 13:17-22

'I will redeem you with an outstretched arm' supplies the exact 'uplifted/high arm' (brachion hypselos) by which God led Israel out of Egypt. High-volume verbal borrowing of a fixed Exodus formula.

High confidence

Allusion3

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Eph 1:7-8

'Redemption' (apolytrosis) maps onto the exodus paradigm: 'I will redeem you with an outstretched arm.' Volume is conceptual but strong; recurrence of redemption-from-Egypt language across the OT and thematic coherence with deliverance and possession (cf. 1:14) make the exodus the governing pattern for 'redemption through his blood.'

High confidence
Col 1:9-14

'In whom we have our redemption' after being delivered out of the domain of darkness (v.13-14) replays the exodus pattern: God redeems (apolytrosis/lytrosis) Israel out of bondage with an outstretched arm. The deliverance-then-redemption sequence and transfer into God's kingdom map onto the exodus from Egypt's darkness.

Medium confidence
Rom 6:1-14 ?

Redemption-from-bondage language: God brings Israel 'out from under the burdens' and 'redeems' them from slavery. Romans 6:6 ('no longer in bondage to sin', douleuein) and 6:7 ('freed from sin') run the exodus slavery/liberation pattern onto sin as the new Pharaoh. The slavery-redemption typology is strong thematically though the verbal contact here is diffuse; the fuller slavery exposition comes in 6:15-23.

Low confidence

Echo3

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

1 Pet 1:13-21

'I will redeem you with an outstretched arm' is the exodus redemption verb Peter applies to ransom 'from the futile ways inherited from your fathers'—a new exodus from ancestral bondage. Thematic coherence high.

Medium confidence
Gal 1:1-5 ?

'that he might deliver us out of this present evil age' draws on the Exodus deliverance vocabulary (rescue from bondage by God's act). The age-from-which-rescued substitutes for Egypt; faint and figural, but the deliverance verb-frame is a deep OT staple. Marked low/contested as a generic redemption motif.

Low confidence
Gal 4:1-7 ?

'That he might redeem those who were under the law' (v.5) draws on the Exodus vocabulary of God redeeming a people from slavery (cf. Exod 6:6, 15:13). The redemption-from-bondage frame coheres tightly with Paul's slave/son contrast, but no single Exodus verse is quoted, so this is a diffuse echo.

Low confidence