“‘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.
⛓ 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
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 confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'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