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Tobit 4:9

The New Testament’s use of Tobit

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

for you lay up a good treasure for yourself against the day of necessity;

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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.

Luke 12:32-34

'You will be laying up a good treasure for yourself against the day of necessity' directly follows Tobit's exhortation to give alms. The treasure-stored-by-almsgiving theme is a precise Second-Temple parallel to selling possessions and giving to the needy.

High confidence

Echo1

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Matt 6:19-21 ?

Almsgiving lays up 'a good treasure for yourself against the day of necessity' — explicit treasure-storing-with-God language behind treasures in heaven.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Tobit 4
Tobit 4:7 2Tobit 4:7-11 9Tobit 4:15 2