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Genesis 39:4

The New Testament’s use of Genesis

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.

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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.

Mark 13:32-37 ?

The parable of the man who goes abroad, leaves his house, and assigns each servant authority over his work faintly recalls the trusted-steward-over-an-absent-master's-household pattern (e.g., Joseph over Potiphar's house). A diffuse OT household-management topos rather than a specific text; low confidence.

Low confidence
Matt 24:45-51 ?

The faithful and wise servant whom the master sets over his household to provision it recalls Joseph set over Potiphar's house and over all Egypt's storehouses to give out food in due season (Gen 39:4-6; 41:40-41), the trusted-steward type.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Genesis 39
Genesis 39:4-6 2Genesis 39:12 2