Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
⛓ Read Genesis 14 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.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Abram's 'I have lifted up my hand to the LORD' shows the raised hand as a gesture of solemn appeal to God, a background image for the praying hands. The connection is to gesture-vocabulary rather than to the worship setting and is faint. It is offered maximally.
Low confidenceAbram 'lifted up my hand to the LORD, God Most High, maker of heaven and earth' combines the raised-hand oath with the creator epithet, a faint patriarchal antecedent of the gesture-plus-creation oath.
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