I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth. When I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud, and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every […]
⛓ Read Genesis 9 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.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The bow in the cloud as covenant sign of mercy restrains judgment; the rainbow on the angel's head before the oath frames the interlude as grace amid the trumpet plagues. Reinforces the Ezek 1 rainbow.
Medium confidenceContested. The rainbow around the throne may carry the Noahic covenant-of-mercy resonance, softening the throne of judgment with a sign of restraint before the seals open in Rev 6. Thematic coherence is good but verbal volume is low — Rev does not echo Genesis wording, and the primary literary source of the bow image is Ezek 1:28, not Genesis. Held at low confidence as a figural overtone.
Low confidence