Depart, depart, go out from there, touch no unclean thing! Go out of the midst of her! Cleanse yourselves, you who bear the vessels of Yahweh.
⛓ Read Isaiah 52 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.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
'Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, touch no unclean thing' quotes 'Depart, depart, go out from there, touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of her, purify yourselves.' Volume maximal (formula-marked), coherence high with the exodus/return-from-exile separation summons; availability secure.
High confidenceAllusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Depart, depart, go out from there, touch no unclean thing; go out of the midst of her, be clean' — separation from defilement underlies 'have no participation in her sins.' (Also cited at 2 Cor 6:17.) Hays: recurrence in NT separation-paraenesis high.
High confidence'Depart from unrighteousness' resonates with the exodus-from-Babylon summons, 'Depart, depart, touch no unclean thing... be clean, you who bear the vessels of the Lord.' The separation-and-purity demand (and the vessel imagery picked up in vv.20-21) makes this a strong secondary source for the seal.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Touch no unclean thing' offers a purity-touch idiom standing behind the ascetic 'do not touch' rule Paul deflates as mere 'severity to the body.' Coherent with the food/purity theme but verbally faint and contested.
Low confidence'Touch no unclean thing... purify yourselves.' James's call to keep oneself 'unstained by the world' resonates faintly with the prophetic summons to ritual and moral purity over against defiling contact.
Low confidence