I will set my tent among you, and my soul won’t abhor you. I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.
⛓ Read Leviticus 26 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.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
'I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people' fuses Lev 26:12 ('I will walk among you and be your God, and you shall be my people') as the lead text of the catena. Volume maximal (formula-marked 'as God said'), coherence high with the temple-of-the-living-God claim, availability secure.
High confidenceAllusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Foundational covenant formula: 'I will set my tabernacle/dwelling among you... I will walk among you and be your God, and you shall be my people.' Source of the Ezek 37:27 reuse; Revelation's plural 'peoples' (laoi, best text) universalizes the singular covenant 'people.'
High confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
"I will make my dwelling (LXX skenen) among you... and I will walk among you" — the covenant-presence/tabernacling promise behind "He who sits on the throne will spread his tabernacle (skenosei) over them." Part of the dwelling-of-God-with-his-people stream (Ezek 37:27; cf. Rev 21:3). Medium coherence; the skene cognate strengthens it.
Medium confidence'I will make my dwelling among you... and walk among you' undergirds the temple-of-the-Spirit image, the covenant promise of God's indwelling presence now located in the believer's body. A coherent but diffuse echo supplementing the Exodus sanctuary text.
Low confidence◇ Figural1
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
'I will make my dwelling among you... and I will walk among you and be your God' is the covenant indwelling formula that 14:23 personalizes: 'we will come to him and make our home (monen) with him.' High Coherence because John reuses the same divine-dwelling-with-the-people promise, now realized as Father and Son abiding with the believer.
High confidence