Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.”
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 1 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.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Moses: 'Choose wise, understanding, and reputable men from your tribes, and I will appoint them as your heads.' The triad wise / known-reputable / appointed maps tightly onto Acts 6:3 ('men of good report, full of wisdom, whom we may appoint'). The LXX vocabulary of selecting reputable, wise men gives real verbal volume here.
Medium confidenceMoses' instruction to take 'wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes' to be made heads parallels the appointment of recognized, reputable elders 'in every city.' The figural pattern of qualified communal leadership stands behind the overseer requirements.
Medium confidenceMoses' charge to select 'wise, understanding, and respected men' as heads parallels the demand that the overseer be sensible and have good testimony. A secondary witness to the same leader-selection topos as Exodus 18.
Low confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Paul's plea that they be 'perfected together in the same mind and the same judgment,' against 'contentions,' faintly recalls Moses' appointment of wise leaders to adjudicate strife among a quarreling people. The thematic coherence (concord versus faction) is reasonable, but verbal contact is slight and the appeal to unity is a general topos.
Low confidence