You shall take on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God seven days.
⛓ 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The crowd's palm branches (ta baia ton phoinikon) echo the festal foliage commanded for Booths, 'branches of palm trees,' carried in cultic rejoicing before the Lord. Coherence is strong since palms had become a nationalist-liturgical symbol of deliverance; the gesture frames Jesus' entry as covenant-festival acclamation.
Medium confidenceThe palm branches (phoinikes) in the multitude's hands evoke the Feast of Tabernacles/Sukkot, where worshipers take "branches of palm trees" and rejoice before the LORD — fitting the booth/tabernacle imagery that immediately follows (7:15, God spreading his tabernacle, skenosei). Festal-joy and ingathering-harvest coherence is strong; the specific lulav connection is the principal reason this is an allusion not a mere echo.
Medium confidence