I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God.”
⛓ 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.
Gen 17:8 ('to you and to your seed after you') is another occurrence of the singular-seed promise Paul exploits, tied to the everlasting covenant. The recurrence of 'and to your seed' across Genesis is exactly what Paul leverages grammatically. High volume.
High confidenceAllusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The land given 'for a possession' to Abraham and his seed reproduces the everlasting-possession formula of the covenant chapter, reinforcing that the gift was promissory, not yet realized.
High confidence'The promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world' (4:13) universalizes the land-inheritance promises of Genesis (17:8 'I will give to you and your offspring... all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession'; cf. 13:15; 15:7). Paul expands the territorial 'land' to 'the world' (kosmos), a move grounded in the cosmic scope of the promise.
Medium confidence