But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
⛓ Read Genesis 19 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.
'Remember Lot's wife' explicitly names the woman who looked back and became a pillar of salt, the warning against turning back when fleeing judgment. A direct citation by name gives maximal Volume and Coherence with 'let him not turn back.'
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The warnings not to go down from the housetop or turn back in the field for one's goods recall Lot's wife, who looked back toward Sodom and perished; the danger of delay for possessions is the Sodom-escape topos.
Low confidence