I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
⛓ Read Genesis 23 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
"I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims" (2:11) echoes the sojourner self-designation paroikos kai parepidēmos of Genesis 23:4 LXX (Abraham), also Psalm 39:12 (LXX 38:13). Reinforces the letter's elect-exile theme (1:1, 1:17); the patriarchal alien status is figurally applied to the diaspora church.
Medium confidence‘Strangers and pilgrims on the earth… dwelling in tents’ (vv. 9, 13) echoes Abraham's self-description at Gen 23:4, ‘a stranger and a foreigner.’ The pilgrim motif is the interpretive hinge — the patriarchs ‘desire a better country, a heavenly one.’
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Abraham's self-description as a 'stranger and sojourner' (paroikos) is the patriarchal template for the resident-alien identity Peter assigns his readers; the same paroikos/parepidemos word-pair recurs in 1 Peter 2:11. Volume modest, recurrence within the letter high.
Medium confidence