This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your seed after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.
⛓ Read Genesis 17 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.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
'He gave him the covenant of circumcision' directly invokes the Genesis 17 institution of circumcision as the sign of the covenant.
High confidenceAllusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Paul's whole argument about receiving circumcision presupposes the Abrahamic covenant of circumcision as the sign binding one to the law. Availability and volume are strong as the institutional backdrop, even though Paul does not cite the words. The figural reversal (circumcision now profits nothing) depends on the reader knowing this text.
Medium confidence