“‘You shall not steal. “‘You shall not lie. “‘You shall not deceive one another.
⛓ Read Leviticus 19 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.
"Don't lie to one another" closely tracks the Holiness Code's "you shall not lie one to another" (LXX), addressed to the covenant community. Strong verbal and situational coherence (reciprocal prohibition among the people of God); the holiness framing fits Colossians' renewed humanity.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'You shall not lie to one another' supplies the Holiness Code substrate of the 'put away falsehood' command. Volume is low next to the Zechariah citation, but the neighbor-truth ethic is rooted in Lev 19, lending recurrence to the source field.
Low confidence