“‘Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people. For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life. Therefore I have said to the children of Israel, “No person […]
⛓ Read Leviticus 17 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.
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A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The prohibition of 'blood' (v.20) directly reuses the repeated Levitical ban applying to both Israelite and the resident alien: 'no one of you shall eat blood.' Explicitly extended to the ger, which is why it grounds rules for Gentile believers.
High confidence'Blood' (v.29) again reflects the Holiness Code's repeated prohibition extended to the sojourner.
High confidenceJames's restated decree that Gentile believers abstain from blood and from things strangled rests on the Holiness Code's prohibition of eating blood, applied to resident aliens as well as Israel. Strong thematic coherence with the apostolic council's grounding in Leviticus 17-18; verbal volume on blood.
High confidence'Drink his blood' (v.53) collides head-on with the absolute Levitical prohibition: 'I will set my face against any who eats blood... the life is in the blood.' The scandal of vv.52-53 is unintelligible without this law; high Volume and Coherence as the offense John exploits.
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