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Genesis 19:26

The New Testament’s use of Genesis

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

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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.

Quotation1

A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.

Luke 17:31-33

'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 confidence

Echo1

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Matt 24:15-22 ?

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
Elsewhere in Genesis 19
Genesis 19:11 2Genesis 19:17 4Genesis 19:24-25 5Genesis 19:24 6Genesis 19:28 3