“‘None of you shall approach anyone who are his close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh. “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, nor the nakedness of your mother: she is your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness. “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife. It is your father’s nakedness. “‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, […]
⛓ Read Leviticus 18 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Sexual immorality' (porneia, v.20) corresponds to the forbidden-unions catalogue of Lev 18, which v.26 expressly imposes on 'the stranger that sojourns among you.' The decree's fourth item completes the set of Holiness-Code rules for resident aliens.
High confidence'Sexual immorality' (v.29) corresponds to the forbidden unions of Lev 18, imposed on the resident alien (v.26). The letter's four items reproduce the ger-laws of Lev 17-18.
High confidence