Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.
⛓ 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.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The claim that God created foods 'to be received with thanksgiving' echoes the post-flood grant, 'Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.' This universal grant of food undergirds the rejection of forbidden-food asceticism.
High confidenceThe position that 'one has faith to eat all things' (panta phagein, 14:2) echoes the post-flood Noahic grant: 'Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; as the green plants I gave you everything' (Genesis 9:3). Paul's 'all things are clean' (14:14,20) presupposes this universal grant of food over against later dietary restriction.
Medium confidence'All things indeed are clean' (panta kathara, 14:20) restates the universal Noahic food grant (Genesis 9:3, everything that lives given as food). Paul grounds Christian liberty regarding food in the creation/Noahic order that precedes and outranks the Levitical restriction.
Medium confidence