You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 28 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.
'Blessed is the fruit of your womb' quotes the covenant blessing of Deuteronomy 28:4, 'Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb.' The exact fruit-of-the-womb-blessing formula gives high volume and casts Mary's child as the supreme covenant blessing.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
"Blessed shall be the fruit of your body" supplies covenant blessing-language on the womb that the woman's exclamation reworks. Diffuse and low volume.
Low confidence