When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 32 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.
'When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance... he fixed the boundaries of the peoples' is the key text behind v.26, God making every nation and 'fixing the boundaries of their dwellings.' Strong verbal and conceptual coherence.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Faint and contested. ‘He didn't subject the world to come… to angels’ (v. 5) is heard by some against the Second Temple reading of Deut 32:8 — where the LXX/Qumran witnesses read ‘according to the number of the angels [sons of God],’ implying the present-age nations were apportioned to angelic powers while the ‘world to come’ is reserved for the Son. The WEB above follows the Masoretic ‘children of Israel’; the divergence is exactly the LXX-vs-Hebrew fork on which the echo depends, so volume is low.
Low confidence