In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”
⛓ Read Genesis 15 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.
'To fill up their sins always' (v. 16) echoes the measure-of-iniquity motif: 'the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete (anapeplerontai).' The notion that sin must reach a fixed full measure before judgment falls coheres precisely with Paul's logic that wrath comes when sins are 'filled up.'
Medium confidence"The iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete" supplies the 'measure not yet full' logic of v32, 'fill up the measure of your fathers.'
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