“‘You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be completed: even to the next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to Yahweh. You shall bring out of your habitations two loaves of bread for a wave offering made of two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour. They shall be baked with yeast, for first fruits […]
⛓ Read Leviticus 23 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.
Paul hastens 'to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost' (v.16); the Feast of Weeks counted fifty days from the Massot offering is legislated here, naming and grounding the festival Luke invokes. The reference is precise but functions chronologically rather than as exegetical citation.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The whole chapter unfolds on the Feast of Weeks/Pentecost (Lev 23:15-21, fifty days from Passover, with firstfruits offered), and the harvest of 'about three thousand souls' added (v.41) reads as the firstfruits of the eschatological harvest gathered on that very feast. Low verbal volume; calendrical and firstfruits-harvest coherence is the basis; contested as deliberate allusion.
Low confidence