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Numbers 12:3

The New Testament’s use of Numbers

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

Now the man Moses was very humble, above all the men who were on the surface of the earth.

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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.

Luke 9:46-48 ?

The valorizing of the least/humblest in a dispute over greatness faintly recalls Moses, 'very meek, above all men,' set over against the leaders' rivalry. Diffuse and figural, hence contested.

Low confidence
Matt 11:28-30 ?

'the man Moses was very meek, above all men' offers a precedent for 'I am gentle (meek) and lowly,' figuring Jesus as a new Moses giving an easy yoke.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Numbers 12
Numbers 12:7 2Numbers 12:8 7Numbers 12:10-15 3