Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?
⛓ Read Numbers 14 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'How long will this people despise me? How long will they refuse to believe (ou pisteuousin) in me?' The doubled 'How long...?' lament over unbelief and 'faithless' echoes God's wilderness frustration with Israel through Moses. Strengthens the Moses-typology of the descent from the mountain.
Medium confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
God's lament 'how long will this people despise me, and how long will they not believe' matches Jesus' double 'how long shall I be with you... how long shall I bear with you' aimed at unbelief. The wilderness-unbelief motif coheres with the faithless-generation theme. Volume is moderate.
Medium confidence'How long shall I be with you and bear with you?' resonates with God's 'How long will this people despise me... how long will they not believe?' in the wilderness. Faint verbal contact but coherent with the wilderness-generation motif; contested.
Low confidence'How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have done?' frames the wilderness generation that, despite signs, refuses faith—precisely the dynamic Jesus laments before the sign-seekers.
Low confidence