“You shall say to them, ‘Any man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice, and doesn’t bring it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to sacrifice it to Yahweh; that man shall be cut off from his people.
⛓ 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.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
James's first prohibition, 'the pollution of idols' (v.20), corresponds to the resident-alien (ger) law forbidding sacrifices offered apart from the LORD — i.e., meat from idol-worship. The four-item decree as a whole derives from the laws binding on the stranger sojourning in Israel (Lev 17-18). High coherence; foundational to the decree.
High confidenceThe written decree restates the prohibitions: 'things sacrificed to idols' (v.29) reuses the Levitical ban on sacrifices offered outside the LORD's worship, binding on the resident alien. Repetition of the v.20 list.
High confidenceThe prohibition against idol-food in the decree ('keep themselves from food offered to idols') draws on Leviticus 17's strictures on sacrifices and on the sojourner, the resident-alien legislation widely seen as the source pool for the apostolic decree; coherent though the idol-food element also rests on broader Pentateuchal idolatry law.
Medium confidence