Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.
⛓ Read Genesis 30 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.
'From now on, all generations will call me blessed' takes up Leah's 'the women will call me blessed' (Genesis 30:13 LXX), spoken at the birth of a son. The call-me-blessed formula is distinctive matriarchal speech, here universalized to all generations.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Leah's "the daughters will call me happy" is the OT type of the blessing-cry pronounced over a woman, here transferred to Jesus' mother. A faint formal parallel to the beatitude on the womb; contested.
Low confidence