Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
⛓ Read Genesis 3 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.
Eve's confession 'the serpent deceived me, and I ate' is the direct source of Paul's 'the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience.' The motif of the woman's deception is lifted from her own words in the Fall account. This is the closest verbal dependence in the pericope.
High confidenceAllusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Sin... deceived me, and through it killed me' (7:11) strongly echoes Eve's 'the serpent deceived me' (LXX 'exepatesen me'); Paul uses the same verb (exapatao), casting sin in the serpent's role of beguiling and bringing death.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The confession that we were once deceived recalls the primal pattern of being led astray, the serpent's deception of Eve. The catalogue of human bondage to lust and malice traces back to the Edenic fall as the origin of disordered desire.
Low confidence