The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.
⛓ 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The praise of love shown to 'brothers and strangers' rests on the Holiness Code's command that the sojourner be treated as a native and loved as oneself. The pairing of love and the resident alien gives the commendation its scriptural weight.
Medium confidence'Love the sojourner as yourself' — the love command already stretched beyond kin in the Holiness Code, anticipating love of enemies.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Extension of neighbor-love to the resident alien ('love him as yourself') broadens the rule's scope to 'men' generally.
Low confidenceThe command to love the resident alien 'as yourself' grounds the welcome of strangers behind 'given to hospitality' (12:13) within the same holiness-code love ethic that governs the pericope.
Low confidence