These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,
⛓ Read Zechariah 8 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.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
'Putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor' quotes 'Speak the truth to one another' (LXX 'each man the truth to his neighbor'). The verbal correspondence is near-exact and the communal rationale matches Zechariah's covenant-renewal ethics. Highest-confidence citation of the ethical section.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Speaking truth in love' anticipates the explicit citation of 'speak the truth to one another' at 4:25. Recurrence within the same chapter strengthens the case that Zechariah's communal-truth command already colors 4:15. Volume is moderate; the verbal kernel ('speak truth') is shared.
Medium confidence