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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

Genesis 35:11 → Genesis 1:28

Allusion

Later text

Genesis 35:11BSB

And God told him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.

Earlier text

Genesis 1:28BSB

God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth."

Significance

At Bethel, God renews the covenant with Jacob using the verbatim imperative pair of the Adamic commission: "Be fruitful (pārâ) and multiply (rābâ)" — the very words of Gen 1:28 directed now to the third patriarch. As at Gen 17:6, the reissue carries the added kingship element: "a company of nations... and kings shall descend from you," anticipating the Davidic vehicle for the commission. The patrilineal repetition (Adam → Noah → Abraham → Isaac → Jacob) shows the commission passing intact down the covenant line, each generation receiving the same first-spoken command of Scripture. The verbatim verbal reuse here is among the OT's clearest signals that the patriarchal promises are deliberate re-speakings of Gen 1:28, and the trajectory lands in the Last Adam, in whom the multiplied seed and the promised kings find their consummation (Matt 28:18-20; Rev 5:9-10).

Found via: Anchor-Text Network — Genesis 1:28 (Beale, The Unfolding of the Old Testament in the New Testament)
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression, Typology

▸ The Adamic Commission

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Anchor Texts 1

Genesis 1:28 — The Adamic Commission

Genesis 35:11 → Genesis 1:28

Significance

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