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Genesis 6:9

The New Testament’s use of Genesis

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

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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.

Luke 1:5-7

The double descriptor 'righteous... blameless' matches the verdict on Noah, who was 'a righteous man, blameless' and 'walked with God' (Genesis 6:9). Septuagintal vocabulary (dikaios, amemptos) recurs; the echo enrolls Zechariah and Elizabeth among Scripture's exemplary righteous.

Medium confidence
Matt 1:18-25 ?

Joseph being called 'a righteous man' (dikaios, v.19) places him in the OT line of the righteous (Noah 'a righteous man'; Job). Faint characterizing echo of the biblical 'tsaddiq' ideal; low volume, no specific borrowing.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Genesis 6
Genesis 6:1-4 5Genesis 6:3 4Genesis 6:5 10Genesis 6:19-20 2