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Leviticus 4:2

The New Testament’s use of Leviticus

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If anyone sins unintentionally, in any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them:

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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.

Echo2

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

Acts 3:17-21 ?

The priestly category of sinning 'through ignorance' underlies Peter's exoneration in v. 17; thematic, no verbal quotation.

Low confidence
Luke 23:32-34 ?

Forgiveness for those who 'know not what they do' aligns with the Torah category of unintentional/inadvertent sin (sins of ignorance) which is atoneable. Luke may be invoking the legal distinction that makes intercession fitting; faint but available.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Leviticus 4
Leviticus 4:7 2