To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life. It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field. By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, […]
⛓ 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'The creation was subjected to vanity... in hope' (vv.20-22) directly invokes the curse on the ground 'because of you,' the toil, thorns, and frustrated labor of the fall; creation's bondage to decay is the Edenic curse awaiting reversal.
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A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
"Death passed to all men" and "death reigned" (5:12, 5:14, 5:17): "cursed is the ground because of you... you are dust, and to dust you shall return." Adam's curse universalizing death is figurally taken up as the reign of death over all humanity that Christ's act of righteousness reverses.
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