Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
⛓ Read Genesis 2 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.
The overcomer's reward of eating "from the tree of life" reverses the Edenic loss. Strong on Hays' volume (the phrase עץ החיים / ξύλον τῆς ζωῆς is verbatim) and recurrence (the motif frames the whole Apocalypse, recurring at Rev 22:2,14). LXX and MT agree on the phrase.
High confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Triad "earth... sea... trees" as the scope of creation to be spared echoes the created order (land, waters, trees of the garden); faint creation-protection resonance. More plausibly John's own merism than a specific citation.
Low confidence"Grace... reign through righteousness to eternal life" (5:21): the tree of life in Eden (Genesis 2:9; 3:22-24), forfeited at the fall, faintly stands behind the restoration of "eternal life" through the second Adam. A disputed figural undertone rather than a verbal echo.
Low confidence