I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity;
⛓ 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Uncircumcised in heart' reproduces the Holiness Code's 'if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled,' the metaphor of inner unfaithfulness.
High confidence2:29 inward circumcision recalls Lev 26:41, 'if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity' — the Holiness Code's notion of an uncircumcised heart needing humbling, a Torah basis for the heart/flesh distinction.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The covenant curse turns on the 'uncircumcised heart' being humbled; the trope of heart-circumcision as the true requirement undergirds Paul's claim that Spirit-worship, not flesh, marks the covenant people.
Medium confidencePaul's fear that God 'would humble me before you' and that he must mourn over the unrepentant draws on the covenantal pattern wherein the people's 'uncircumcised heart' is humbled until they repent. Faint; flagged because the humbling-then-mourning-over-sin sequence reflects the Levitical/Deuteronomic logic of covenant discipline.
Low confidence