They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
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Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Brought back to Shechem' echoes the burial of Joseph's bones in the parcel of ground at Shechem that Jacob bought from Hamor's sons — the source that explains Stephen's Shechem detail.
High confidenceJoseph's bones were buried in the parcel at Shechem that Jacob bought, the same patriarchal plot John names. Availability and Coherence are strong; it reinforces the Jacob-Joseph-Shechem matrix even if John cites no text.
Medium confidence