Appendix 11: Quotations from or allusions to Genesis in the New Testament
by Dr. Henry M. Morris:
(taken from the Defender's Study Bible)
One measure of the foundational importance of the Book of Genesis is the fact that allusions and quotations referring to Genesis occur so frequently in the New Testament, as much as or more than any other book of the Old Testament. These are listed in the following tabulation. Note especially the “observations” at the end of the tabulation.
Genesis Reference | Topic | New Testament Reference |
1. Genesis 1:1 | God in the beginning | John 1:1 |
2. Genesis 1:1 | Beginning of the world | 2 Timothy 1:9 |
3. Genesis 1:1 | Beginning of the world | Titus 1:2 |
4. Genesis 1:1 | Creation of universe | Hebrews 11:3 |
5. Genesis 1:1 | Earth and heaven in the beginning | Hebrews 1:10 |
6. Genesis 1:3-5 | Light out of darkness | 2 Corinthians 4:6 |
7. Genesis 1:5-7 | Earth out of water and in water | 2 Peter 3:4-5 |
8. Genesis 1:11 | Every seed his own body | 1 Corinthians 15:38-39 |
9. Genesis 1:11-12 | Earth bringing forth herbs | Hebrews 6:7 |
10. Genesis 1:26-27 | Made male and female | Mark 10:6-7 |
11. Genesis 1:26-27 | Made in image of God | Colossians 3:10 |
12. Genesis 1:27 | In the image of God | 1 Corinthians 11:7 |
13. Genesis 1:29-31 | All creatures good | 1 Timothy 4:4 |
14. Genesis 1:31 | All things made by God | Acts 17:24 |
15. Genesis 2:1 | All that in them is | Acts 14:15 |
16. Genesis 2:1 | All things created in heaven and earth | Revelation 10:6 |
17. Genesis 2:1 | First heaven and first earth | Revelation 21:1 |
18. Genesis 2:1-3 | All things created | Colossians 1:16 |
19. Genesis 2:1 | Works finished | Hebrews 4:3 |
20. Genesis 2:2 | Rest on the seventh day | Hebrews 4:4 |
21. Genesis 2:3 | Ceased from His works | Hebrews 4:10 |
22. Genesis 2:3 | Created all things | Ephesians 3:9 |
23. Genesis 2:3 | World made by Him | John 1:10 |
24. Genesis 2:3 | Created all things | Revelation 4:11 |
25. Genesis 2:4 | Creation which God created | Mark 13:19 |
26. Genesis 2:4 | He that made heaven and earth | Revelation 14:7 |
27. Genesis 2:4-6 | Things that were made | Romans 1:20 |
28. Genesis 2:7 | Adam a living soul | 1 Corinthians 15:45 |
29. Genesis 2:7 | Man formed | 1 Timothy 2:13 |
30. Genesis 2:9 | Tree of life in paradise | Revelation 2:7 |
31. Genesis 2:9 | Fruit of tree of life | Revelation 22:14 |
32. Genesis 2:17 | Death by sin | Romans 5:12 |
33. Genesis 2:18 | Woman for the man | 1 Corinthians 11:9 |
34. Genesis 2:22 | Woman of the man | 1 Corinthians 11:8 |
35. Genesis 2:23 | Bone of his bone | Ephesians 5:30 |
36. Genesis 2:24 | Leave father and mother | Ephesians 5:31 |
37. Genesis 2:24 | One flesh | 1 Corinthians 6:16 |
38. Genesis 2:24 | Cleave to his wife | Matthew 19:5 |
39. Genesis 2:24 | One flesh | Mark 10:8 |
40. Genesis 3:1 | That old serpent | Revelation 20:2 |
41. Genesis 3:1 | Subtlety of serpent | 2 Corinthians 11:3 |
42. Genesis 3:4 | Father of lies | John 8:44 |
43. Genesis 3:6 | Woman deceived | 1 Timothy 2:14 |
44. Genesis 3:13 | Serpent beguiled Eve | 2 Corinthians 11:3 |
45. Genesis 3:14 | Devil sinneth from the beginning | xTerm 3:8 |
46. Genesis 3:15 | Made of a woman | Galatians 4:4 |
47. Genesis 3:15/ | Satan bruised under foot | Romans 16:20 |
48. Genesis 3:15 | Enmity with the woman | Revelation 12:13-17 |
49. Genesis 3:15 | That old serpent | Revelation 12:9 |
50. Genesis 3:15 | Treading on serpents | Luke 10:19 |
51. Genesis 3:16 | Saved in child-bearing | 1 Timothy 2:15 |
52. Genesis 3:16 | Woman under obedience | 1 Corinthians 14:34 |
53. Genesis 3:16 | Sorrow in travail | John 16:20 |
54. Genesis 3:16 | Man the head of the woman | 1 Corinthians 11:3 |
55. Genesis 3:17 | No more curse | Revelation 22:3 |
56. Genesis 3:18 | Thorns and briers | Hebrews 6:8 |
57. Genesis 3:18-19 | Bondage of corruption | Romans 8:21-22 |
58. Genesis 3:18-19 | No more death, sorrow, pain | Revelation 21:4 |
59. Genesis 3:19 | Work for your own bread | 2 Thessalonians 3:12 |
60. Genesis 3:19 | By man came death | 1 Corinthians 15:21 |
61. Genesis 3:20 | Mother of us all | Galatians 4:26 |
62. Genesis 3:22 | Fruit of tree of life | Revelation 22:2 |
63. Genesis 3:23 | Man from the earth | 1 Corinthians 15:47 |
64. Genesis 4:3-5 | Abel a more excellent sacrifice | Hebrews 11:4 |
65. Genesis 4:4 | Righteous Abel | Matthew 23:35 |
66. Genesis 4:8 | Cain slew his brother | xTerm 3:12 |
67. Genesis 4:10 | Blood of Abel | Hebrews 12:24 |
68. Genesis 4:11 | Blood of Abel | Luke 11:51 |
69. Genesis 4:16 | The way of Cain | Jude 11 |
70. Genesis 4:26 | Prophets since the world began | Luke 1:70 |
71. Genesis 5:1 | Book of the generations | Matthew 1:1 |
72. Genesis 5:1 | Similitude of God | James 3:9 |
73. Genesis 5:2 | Created male and female | Matthew 19:4 |
74. Genesis 5:2 | Beginning of the creation of God | Revelation 3:14 |
75. Genesis 5:4 | Death reigned from Adam | Romans 5:14-19 |
76. Genesis 5:5 | In Adam all die | 1 Corinthians 15:22 |
77. Genesis 5:3-6 | Adam to Enos | Luke 3:38 |
78. Genesis 5:12-21 | Cainan to Methuselah | Luke 3:37 |
79. Genesis 5:18 | Enoch, seventh from Adam | Jude 14 |
80. Genesis 5:24 | Enoch translated | Hebrews 11:5 |
81. Genesis 5:28-32 | Lamech to Shem | Luke 3:36 |
82. Genesis 5:29 | Subjected to curse in hope | Romans 8:20 |
83. Genesis 6:2 | Angels that sinned | 2 Peter 2:4 |
84. Genesis 6:3 | Spirit striving with flesh | Galatians 5:17 |
85. Genesis 6:4 | Angels left their habitation | Jude 6 |
86. Genesis 6:4 | Marrying wives | Luke 17:27 |
87. Genesis 6:5 | Days of Noah | Matthew 24:37 |
88. Genesis 6:12-13 | The days of Noah | Luke 17:26 |
89. Genesis 6:13 | God spared not old world | 2 Peter 2:5 |
90. Genesis 6:14-16 | Ark preparing | 1 Peter 3:20 |
91. Genesis 7:1 | Saving of his house | Hebrews 11:7 |
92. Genesis 7:13-16 | Noah entered the ark | Matthew 24:38 |
93. Genesis 7:17-18 | The Flood came | Matthew 24:39 |
94. Genesis 7:19-20 | Overflowed with water | 2 Peter 3:6 |
95. Genesis 8:21 | Sweet savour | Philippians 4:18 |
96. Genesis 8:22 | Fruitful seasons | Acts 14:17 |
97. Genesis 9:2 | All things subjected to man | Hebrews 2:7-8 |
98. Genesis 9:3 | Everything meat for you | 1 Timothy 4:3 |
99. Genesis 9:4 | Blood not to be eaten | Acts 15:20 |
100. Genesis 9:6 | Life for life | Matthew 26:52 |
101. Genesis 10:8-11 | Babylon, the mother of abominations | Revelation 17:5 |
102. Genesis 10:32 | All nations on face of earth | Acts 17:26 |
103. Genesis 11:4-5 | That great city | Revelation 17:18 |
104. Genesis 11:10-13 | Shem to Cainan | Luke 3:36 |
105. Genesis 11:14-20 | Salah to Serug | Luke 3:35 |
106. Genesis 11:22-26 | Nahor to Abraham | Luke 3:34 |
107. Genesis 11:31 | Abraham dwelt in Haran | Acts 7:4 |
108. Genesis 12:1 | Abraham to leave his kindred | Acts 7:3 |
109. Genesis 12:3 | All families of earth to be blessed | Acts 3:25 |
110. Genesis 12:3 | All nations blessed | Galatians 3:8 |
111. Genesis 12:4 | Abraham went out | Hebrews 11:8 |
112. Genesis 12:5 | From Haran to Canaan | Acts 7:4 |
113. Genesis 12:7 | Unborn seed given the land | Acts 7:5 |
114. Genesis 13:15 | Promise to the seed | Galatians 3:16 |
115. Genesis 14:18 | Melchizedek met Abraham | Hebrews 7:1 |
116. Genesis 14:19 | Abraham blessed of Melchizedek | Hebrews 7:6-7 |
117. Genesis 14:20 | Tithes to Melchizedek | Hebrews 7:4-5 |
118. Genesis 15:5 | So shall thy seed be | Romans 4:18 |
119. Genesis 15:5 | Seed as the stars | Hebrews 11:12 |
120. Genesis 15:6 | Faith counted for righteousness | Romans 4:3, 5, 9, 22 |
121. Genesis 15:6 | Abraham believed God | Galatians 3:6 |
122. Genesis 15:6 | Imputed righteousness | James 2:23 |
123. Genesis 15:13 | Afflicted 400 years | Acts 7:6 |
124. Genesis 15:14 | Nation to be judged | Acts 7:7 |
125. Genesis 15:16 | Iniquity to be filled up | 1 Thessalonians 2:16 |
126. Genesis 16:1 | No children | Acts 7:5 |
127. Genesis 16:15 | A son by Hagar | Galatians 4:22 |
128. Genesis 17:5 | Father of many nations | Romans 4:17 |
129. Genesis 17:7 | With Abram's seed forever | Luke 1:55 |
130. Genesis 17:8 | Oath sworn to Abraham | Luke 1:73 |
131. Genesis 17:10 | Circumcision of the fathers | John 7:22 |
132. Genesis 17:11 | Sign of circumcision | Romans 4:11 |
133. Genesis 17:13 | Covenant of circumcision | Acts 7:8 |
134. Genesis 17:17 | Abraham and Sarah past age | Romans 4:19 |
135. Genesis 18:2 | Angels unawares | Hebrews 13:2 |
136. Genesis 18:10, 14 | Sarah to bear at appointed time | Romans 9:9 |
137. Genesis 18:12 | Sarah called Abraham “lord” | 1 Peter 3:6 |
138. Genesis 18:20 | Sin of Sodom and Gomorrah | Matthew 10:15 |
139. Genesis 19:1-3 | Entertaining angels | Hebrews 13:2 |
140. Genesis 19:5 | Going after strange flesh | Jude 7 |
141. Genesis 19:9 | Lot dwelling among wicked | 2 Peter 2:7-8 |
142. Genesis 19:24 | Fire and brimstone from heaven | Luke 17:29 |
143. Genesis 19:25 | Judgment on Sodom | Luke 10:12 |
144. Genesis 19:26 | Lot's wife | Luke 17:32 |
145. Genesis 21:1 | Promise fulfilled | Galatians 4:23 |
146. Genesis 21:2 | Sarah conceived seed | Hebrews 11:11 |
147. Genesis 21:3 | Abraham begat Isaac | Matthew 1:2 |
148. Genesis 21:4 | Isaac the son of Abraham | Luke 3:34 |
149. Genesis 21:9 | Son of promise persecuted | Galatians 4:29 |
150. Genesis 21:10 | Bondwoman cast out | Galatians 4:30 |
151. Genesis 21:12 | Isaac the seed of promise | Galatians 4:28 |
152. Genesis 21:13 | Seed of Abraham | Romans 9:7 |
153. Genesis 21:13 | Isaac the seed called | Hebrews 11:18 |
154. Genesis 21:14 | Hagar in the wilderness | Galatians 4:24-25 |
155. Genesis 22:1-3 | Abraham offered up Isaac | Hebrews 11:17 |
156. Genesis 22:5 | Accounting God could raise him up | Hebrews 11:19 |
157. Genesis 22:9 | Isaac on the altar | James 2:21 |
158. Genesis 22:16 | God swearing by Himself | Hebrews 6:13 |
159. Genesis 22:17 | Blessing and multiplying | Hebrews 6:14 |
160. Genesis 22:17 | As the sand and stars | Hebrews 11:12 |
161. Genesis 22:18 | Heir of all nations of earth | Romans 4:13 |
162. Genesis 23:4 | Stranger and sojourner | Hebrews 11:9 |
163. Genesis 23:16-20 | Sepulcher bought | Acts 7:16 |
164. Genesis 25:21 | Rebekah conceived | Romans 9:10 |
165. Genesis 25:23 | Elder to serve the younger | Romans 9:12 |
166. Genesis 25:25-26 | Jacob and Esau | Romans 9:13 |
167. Genesis 25:33 | Birthright despised | Hebrews 12:16 |
168. Genesis 26:3 | Blessing of Abraham | Galatians 3:14 |
169. Genesis 26:4-5 | Covenant confirmed | Galatians 3:17 |
170. 27:27-29, 39-40 | Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau | Hebrews 11:20 |
171. Genesis 27:34, 38 | No place of repentance | Hebrews 12:17 |
172. Genesis 28:12 | Angels descending | John 1:51 |
173. Genesis 28:15 | Never leave thee | Hebrews 13:5 |
174. Genesis 29:35 | Judah, son of Jacob | Luke 3:33 |
175. Genesis 30:13 | Called blessed | Luke 1:48 |
176. Genesis 30:23 | Reproach taken away | Luke 1:25 |
177. Genesis 31:42 | God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob | Matthew 22:32 |
178. Genesis 32:12 | Seed as the sand | Hebrews 11:12 |
179. Genesis 33:19 | Jacob's parcel of ground | John 4:5 |
180. Genesis 35:16-17 | Rachel weeping | Matthew 2:18 |
181. Genesis 37:28 | Joseph sold into Egypt | Acts 7:9 |
182. Genesis 38:29 | Judah begat Pharez | Matthew 1:3 |
183. Genesis 39:2, 23 | The Lord with Joseph | Acts 7:9 |
184. Genesis 41:41-44 | Joseph exalted | Acts 7:10 |
185. Genesis 41:54 | Dearth in Egypt | Acts 7:11 |
186. Genesis 42:1-2 | Corn in Egypt | Acts 7:12 |
187. Genesis 42:5 | Famine in Canaan | Acts 7:11 |
188. Genesis 42:13 | Twelve brethren | Acts 7:8 |
189. Genesis 45:1-4 | Joseph revealed to his brethren | Acts 7:13 |
190. Genesis 45:9-11 | Joseph sending for Jacob | Acts 7:14 |
191. Genesis 46:5-6 | Jacob going to Egypt | Acts 7:15 |
192. Genesis 46:26-27 | Seventy-five souls | Acts 7:14 |
193. Genesis 47:9 | Strangers and pilgrims | Hebrews 11:13 |
194. Genesis 47:31 | Leaning on top of staff | Hebrews 11:21 |
195. Genesis 48:13-20 | Jacob blessed sons of Joseph | Hebrews 11:21 |
196. Genesis 49:9-10 | Lion of tribe of Judah | Revelation 5:5 |
197. Genesis 49:10 | Lord sprang from Judah | Hebrews 7:14 |
198. Genesis 49:11 | Washed garments in blood | Revelation 7:14 |
199. Genesis 49:29-30 | Jacob buried in Canaan | Acts 7:16 |
200. Genesis 50:24-26 | Death of Joseph | Hebrews 11:22 |
Observations
- The references listed above do not include references to “Israel” as a nation, or to “Judah,” “Benjamin,” and so forth, as tribes, even though such names are first encountered in Genesis.
- The references listed do not include verses in which there is merely a similarity in wording (e.g., John 2:5 with Genesis 41:55) unless there is evidence that the New Testament writer consciously was incorporating the Genesis phraseology into his own writings.
- All books of the New Testament except Philemon, yTerm, and zTerm contain allusions to Genesis.
- Of the fifty chapters in Genesis, only seven (Genesis 20, 24, 34, 36, 40, 43, 44) are not quoted or cited in the New Testament.
- More than half of the two hundred New Testament allusions to Genesis are found in the first eleven chapters of Genesis.
- Sixty-three of the allusions are to the first three chapters of Genesis.
- Fourteen of the allusions are from the “Flood chapters” (Genesis 6, 7, 8).
- Fifty-eight references are related to Abraham.
- None of the two hundred New Testament references to Genesis are explicitly ascribed to Moses as their author, indicating a probable recognition that he was editor and compiler, rather than author.
- Twenty-five of the references were directly from Christ Himself (from Genesis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 17, 18, 19, 28, and 31).
Taken from The Genesis Record by Henry M. Morris (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1976), pp. 677-682.