This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.
⛓ Read Genesis 5 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.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The opening 'biblos geneseos' (book of the genealogy/origin) directly echoes the LXX heading 'he biblos geneseos anthropon' of Gen 5:1, and recurs at Gen 2:4. Volume is high (rare, distinctive lexical formula reproduced verbatim in Greek); thematic coherence is strong — Matthew frames Jesus' arrival as a new creation/new beginning of humanity's story, deliberately invoking the toledot structure of Genesis.
High confidenceThe warning against 'endless genealogies' presupposes the OT genealogical literature (the toledoth lists of Genesis) that later speculative interpreters elaborated. Paul rejects the misuse of such material for fruitless dispute. The genealogies of Genesis are the textual seedbed of the practice opposed.
Medium confidence"After the image of his Creator" also resonates with the toledot statement that God made man in his likeness, the verse that reasserts the image after the fall. Supports the renewal-of-the-image reading; medium because Gen 1:26-27 is the primary lexical source and 5:1 is the secondary, reinforcing one.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'In the likeness of God he made him' reinforces the image-of-God ground; Genesis 9:6 ('whoever sheds man's blood… for God made man in his own image') is the same principle applied to harming the image-bearer.
Medium confidence