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Genesis 12:1

The New Testament’s use of Genesis

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you.

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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.

Quotation1

A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.

Acts 7:1-8

'Get out of your land, and from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you' reproduces the LXX call of Abram almost verbatim — the foundational migration command anchoring the whole speech's theme of God on the move, not bound to one place.

High confidence

Figural1

A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.

Heb 11:8–22

‘Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out… not knowing where he went’ (v. 8) retells the call of Gen 12:1–4. High verbal volume in the verbs of going out and obeying; the founding act of faith for the whole roll-call.

High confidence
Elsewhere in Genesis 12
Genesis 12:1-3 3Genesis 12:3 9