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Leviticus 19:31

The New Testament’s use of Leviticus

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

“‘Don’t turn to those who are mediums, nor to the wizards. Don’t seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am Yahweh your God.

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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.

Acts 16:16-24

'Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards.' The girl's mantic spirit is the very category Israel is forbidden to consult; Paul's command silences and casts out the source. Reinforces the divination-prohibition cluster.

Medium confidence

Echo1

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Acts 19:18-20 ?

Believers turn from magical arts; Leviticus forbids turning to mediums and wizards lest one be defiled. The conversion-from-occult theme coheres strongly. Contested in that no single phrase is quoted.

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Leviticus 19
Leviticus 19:2 7Leviticus 19:11 2Leviticus 19:12 3Leviticus 19:13 4Leviticus 19:14 3Leviticus 19:15 5Leviticus 19:17 6Leviticus 19:17-18 3Leviticus 19:18 32Leviticus 19:34 4