Text: Genesis 12:2-3 — "I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you... and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you."
OT Text Referred to: Genesis 1:28
Source: Anchor-Text Network — Genesis 1:28 (Beale, The Unfolding of the Old Testament in the New Testament; Schnittjer, Old Testament Use of Old Testament)
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression, Longitudinal Theme
Anchor Text: Gen 1:28 — The Adamic Commission
Significance: The Abrahamic call reapplies the Adamic commission to one covenant family. The repeated blessing-language — "I will bless you... in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed" — echoes Gen 1:28's opening wayəbārek ("God blessed them"), and the promise of "a great nation" reconceives the pārâ / rābâ fruitfulness-and-multiplication mandate as covenant promise rather than creation imperative. Crucially, the mālēʾ ("fill the earth") clause is transposed into the universal scope of "all the families of the earth": the commission no longer fills the earth merely with biological offspring but with blessing reaching every nation. The commission narrows here — from universal humanity to Abraham's line — precisely so that, through that line, it may later expand again to all nations. This is the redemptive-historical hinge between the Adamic mandate and the Abrahamic promise, and it lands in the Last Adam, in whom "all the families of the earth" are blessed through the gospel reaching the nations (Gal 3; Matt 28:18-20).