Biblical text has been greatly influenced in the modern society by the novels that relayed it. In this article, our focus will be on the interpretation and adaptation that’s been put in place toward biblical thematic and con cept / images in connection with novels. We were particularly interested in the presence of the biblical verse in the first novel of the Toni Morrison, L’Oeil le plus bleu (The Bluest Eye) and in Les Aubes écarlates, by Léonora Miano, the last part of her trilogy entitled Suite africaine.