“‘If it is an animal, of which men offer an offering to Yahweh, all that any man gives of such to Yahweh becomes holy. He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change animal for animal, then both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy. If it is any unclean animal, of which they do not offer as an offering to Yahweh, then he shall set the animal before the priest; and the priest shall […]
⛓ Read Leviticus 27 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.
Legislation on things 'devoted' (qorban/herem) to the LORD; the technical 'gift devoted to God' (Mt 15:5) draws on this dedicatory vocabulary.
Medium confidenceLeviticus 27 governs things devoted/dedicated to the LORD (cherem and votive gifts), the legal category 'Corban, that is, given to God' invokes. Mark's transliterated technical term presupposes this dedication law; the abuse is treating a thing as devoted to bar a creditor-parent. Availability genuine, volume faint.
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