Yahweh said, “Will I hide from Abraham what I do, since Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him? For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”
⛓ Read Genesis 18 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?' — the friend of God is not kept ignorant of the master's plans, precisely the logic of 15:15 ('the servant doesn't know what his lord does... I have made known to you'). Coherence with the friend-vs-servant distinction.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
God's deliberation, 'Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?', reflects the intimacy underlying the 'friend of God' tradition. Faint background echo to James 2:23's friendship motif; the explicit title comes from Isaiah/Chronicles.
Low confidence