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Genesis 5:2

The New Testament’s use of Genesis

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them “Adam”.

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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.

Allusion1

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Matt 19:3-9

Genesis 5:2 repeats 'male and female created he them, and blessed them'; the doublet reinforces the 'from the beginning' creation argument and may stand behind Jesus' formulation alongside 1:27.

Medium confidence

Echo1

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

Mark 10:1-12 ?

The toledot restatement 'male and female he created them, and blessed them' reinforces the male-and-female creation formula Jesus cites. It is a secondary witness to the same tradition behind Genesis 1:27, strengthening Recurrence. Marked contested because Mark most plausibly draws on Genesis 1:27 directly.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Genesis 5
Genesis 5:1 4Genesis 5:24 7