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Numbers 16:22

The New Testament’s use of Numbers

3 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”

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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.

Allusion1

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Rev 22:6–9

'O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh.' Title source for 'the Lord God of the spirits of the prophets' (Rev adapts 'of all flesh' to 'of the prophets'). Coherence with Num 27:16.

Medium confidence

Echo2

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

Acts 17:22-31 ?

'God of the spirits of all flesh' supports the universal life-giver theme of v.25.

Low confidence
Luke 23:46 ?

'God of the spirits of all flesh' / the giving-up of spirit may faintly evoke the biblical idiom of the breath/spirit returning to God (cf. Eccl 12:7). Thematic background for the 'breathed his last'; not a specific Lukan target.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Numbers 16
Numbers 16:3 2Numbers 16:5 2