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Numbers 12:7

The New Testament’s use of Numbers

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

My servant Moses is not so. He is faithful in all my house.

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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.

Quotation1

A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.

Heb 3:1–6

God's own commendation of Moses — ‘faithful in all my house’ — is woven in twice (vv. 2, 5) and then turned on its pivot: Moses faithful as a servant in the house, Christ faithful as a Son over it. The whole Moses/Christ comparison hangs on this one verse.

High confidence

Echo1

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

2 Tim 2:1-7 ?

Entrusting the deposit to 'faithful men' who can teach others recalls the OT ideal of the trustworthy servant, paradigmatically Moses who is 'faithful in all my house.' The transmission-by-faithful-stewards motif underlies Paul's chain of witnesses.

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