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Genesis 1:29

The New Testament’s use of Genesis

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

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.

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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.

1 Tim 4:1-5

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 confidence

Echo1

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

Rom 14:1-12 ?

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
Elsewhere in Genesis 1
Genesis 1:1 17Genesis 1:2 11Genesis 1:3 6Genesis 1:11-12 3Genesis 1:14 2Genesis 1:24-26 2Genesis 1:26-27 12Genesis 1:26 2Genesis 1:27 8Genesis 1:28 8Genesis 1:31 4