Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all Yahweh’s people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them!”
⛓ Read Numbers 11 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.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Paul's wish that 'you all' would prophesy (14:5) echoes Moses' cry, 'Would that all the LORD's people were prophets, that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!' Both texts democratize prophecy against a restrictive view, and both tie prophecy to the bestowal of the Spirit. The coherence with Joel's poured-out-Spirit hope strengthens the link, though Paul does not cite Moses verbatim.
Medium confidenceMoses' 'Would that all the LORD's people were prophets' anticipates Jesus' inclusive 'whoever is not against us is for us.' The generous expansion of authorized agency is shared. The echo completes the Eldad-and-Medad parallel.
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