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Genesis 2:2

The New Testament’s use of Genesis

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

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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.

Heb 4:1–5

Joined to Ps 95 by the catchword ‘rest’ (gezerah shavah): God's own Sabbath rest at creation defines the ‘rest’ the psalm holds open. Two texts fused by a shared word to make a third meaning.

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Echo1

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

Heb 4:6–11

‘He who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his’ (v. 10) re-sounds Gen 2:2 (quoted at 4:4) to define the promised rest as a sharing in God's own Sabbath — the coinage sabbatismos (‘a Sabbath rest,’ v. 9) is built on it. Recurrence within the same pericope cluster (Hays).

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Elsewhere in Genesis 2
Genesis 2:1-2 2Genesis 2:2-3 6Genesis 2:7 21Genesis 2:8 3Genesis 2:8-15 2Genesis 2:9 3Genesis 2:17 6Genesis 2:18-23 2Genesis 2:18 2Genesis 2:24 10