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Genesis 33:11

The New Testament’s use of Genesis

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” He urged him, and he took it.

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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.

Echo2

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

2 Cor 9:1-5 ?

Paul calls the collection a 'generous gift' using eulogia (blessing/bounty), the same Septuagintal idiom by which Jacob presses his 'blessing' (gift) on Esau. The lexical overlap is suggestive rather than demonstrable, since eulogia-as-present is a stock LXX usage available to Paul. Coherence is moderate: Paul frames almsgiving as a transferable blessing, exactly the Genesis nuance.

Low confidence
2 Cor 9:12-15 ?

Paul's climactic 'thanks be to God for his indescribable gift' may extend the eulogia/gift register of the chapter, but no specific OT text underlies the doxology; the divine gift transcends OT precedent by design. The link to Genesis 33:11 is offered only as the chapter-spanning gift idiom. Very low volume; clearly contested.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Genesis 33
Genesis 33:4 2