For to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.
⛓ 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.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The premise that the redeemed belong to God and therefore should not become slaves of men ('to me the people of Israel are servants') reinforces 7:23 and is part of the same Jubilee slave-law complex as Lev 25:42. Listed as a faint, recurring background echo to the bought-with-a-price logic; contested.
Low confidenceGod's claim that the Israelites are his servants whom he brought out of Egypt frames Israel's whole obedience as owed service, the covenantal backdrop to 'we have only done what was our duty.' Faint, diffuse, contested.
Low confidence