In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
⛓ Read Leviticus 12 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.
Allusion5
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'On the Sabbath you circumcise a boy' (vv.22-23) rests on the law that a male child is circumcised 'on the eighth day,' which can fall on a Sabbath, overriding Sabbath rest. Leviticus 12:3 is the explicit eighth-day legislation Jesus reasons from a fortiori (if circumcision overrides Sabbath, how much more healing a whole man). High volume and coherence.
High confidenceThe eighth-day circumcision also fulfills the Levitical statute, 'on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised' (Leviticus 12:3). High-volume legal citation reinforcing the family's Torah observance.
High confidenceThe eighth-day circumcision restates the Mosaic legislation, 'on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised,' which also frames the purification timeline taken up in the next pericope. Direct legal availability and exact coherence make this a strong allusion.
High confidenceThe Mosaic codification of circumcision (eighth-day) is what 'the custom of Moses' (v.1) most directly names, distinguishing the demand here from the merely Abrahamic command; supports the phrase 'keep the law of Moses' (v.5).
Medium confidenceThe legal restatement 'on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised' reinforces the same eighth-day statute Paul claims. A secondary witness to the precept behind his pedigree.
Medium confidence