“‘So you shall not pollute the land in which you are; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.
⛓ Read Numbers 35 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.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Blood pollutes the land, and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood shed in it except by the blood of him who shed it' — the priests' anxiety that blood-money cannot enter the treasury and the land's defilement by innocent blood reflect this Mosaic principle.
Medium confidenceThe notion that the land/nation is preserved by a death ('no expiation for the land for blood except by the blood of him who shed it') faintly underlies Caiaphas' calculus that one death spares the nation. Low volume and contested as a deliberate echo.
Low confidence