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Genesis 18:6

The New Testament’s use of Genesis

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly prepare three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.”

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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.

Luke 13:20-21

'Three measures of flour' matches the three seahs of fine meal Sarah kneads for the three visitors, an unusually specific quantity. Medium Volume; the precise figure suggests deliberate evocation of hospitality/promise to Abraham, though it may simply denote a large baking.

Medium confidence
Matt 13:33

Abraham tells Sarah to take 'three measures (seahs) of fine flour' and make cakes for the divine visitors — the specific 'three measures of meal' is a distinctive verbal echo, a generous/hospitality-scaled quantity now hiding the Kingdom's leaven.

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Genesis 18
Genesis 18:1-8 8Genesis 18:4 4Genesis 18:8 2Genesis 18:10 2Genesis 18:11 2Genesis 18:14 8Genesis 18:17-19 2Genesis 18:25 8