For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.
⛓ Read Leviticus 25 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.
Paul's 'You were bought with a price; do not become bondservants of men' rests on the Levitical principle that Israelites are God's own servants ('they are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves'), so their ultimate ownership belongs to God, not human masters. Coherence with Paul's slave/free argument is strong. The redemption-from-slavery theology is distinctive and available; medium confidence.
Medium confidence'For they are my servants (slaves), whom I brought out of the land of Egypt' (cf. 25:55). The structural logic of 6:16-22 - one cannot be masterless; freed from one slavery you become a slave of another, and God's people are rightly God's slaves - mirrors the exodus principle that liberation from Pharaoh = transfer to YHWH's service. Coheres with Paul's 'made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness/God.'
Medium confidence