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. I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you.”
⛓ Read Genesis 12 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Strangers from the covenants of the promise' presupposes the Abrahamic promise of blessing and land. The 'promise' Gentiles were excluded from is the recurrent patriarchal covenant promise, the availability of which frames their reincorporation.
Medium confidence'We have Abraham for our father' presupposes the Abrahamic election and promise of descendants. John subverts presumption on physical Abrahamic descent; the covenant-father claim is intelligible only against the Genesis Abraham narrative and promise of seed.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Whose children you now are' (3:6) extends the Abrahamic-promise logic: Gentile believing wives become daughters of Sarah/children of the Abrahamic covenant, echoing the promise that Abraham would father a people. Faint and dependent on the Sarah link.
Low confidence