God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
⛓ Read Genesis 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The divine provision of foods 'which God created to be received' recalls the original grant of every seed-bearing plant and tree for food. The created order itself is the warrant for eating with thanksgiving.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The 'weak' eating only vegetables (lachana, 14:2) recalls the original Edenic vegetarian diet granted to humanity (Genesis 1:29, every seed-bearing plant for food). The contrast of vegetable-only vs. eating-all-things may evoke the pre-Noahic dietary order; thematic and faint, not verbal.
Low confidence