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Leviticus 26:21

The New Testament’s use of Leviticus

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

“‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.

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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.

Rev 15:1

Covenant-curse formula of sevenfold plagues for disobedience ('I will bring seven times more plagues on you'); the 'seven last plagues' draws on this stylized completeness. Recurs at Lev 26:18, 24, 28. LXX heptakis matches.

Medium confidence

Echo1

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Rev 22:18–21

'I will bring more plagues upon you, sevenfold for your sins' — covenant-curse 'add plagues' formula behind 'may God add to him the plagues.' Coherence with the Exodus-plagues motif in Rev 15–16. LXX plege.

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Leviticus 26
Leviticus 26:11-12 5Leviticus 26:41 4