“This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the children of Israel once in the year because of all their sins.”
⛓ Read Leviticus 16 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
‘As the high priest enters into the holy place year by year’ (v. 25) restates the ‘once in the year’ statute of Lev 16:34. The contrast Hebrews builds (yearly repetition vs. Christ's single entry) hangs on this annual cadence; verbal contact on ‘once in the year.’
Medium confidence◇ Figural1
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
‘The same sacrifices year by year… a yearly reminder of sins’ (vv. 1, 3) presupposes the once-a-year Day of Atonement statute. High thematic coherence with the book's central typology (chs 9–10): the very repetition Leviticus commands is what Hebrews turns into proof of the law's inability to perfect.
High confidence