Genesis 9:8

Amplified Bible

Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him,

Update Bible Version
And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

New Century Version
Then God said to Noah and his sons,

New English Translation
God said to Noah and his sons,

Webster's Bible Translation
And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

World English Bible
God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and to his sones with him, Lo!

Young's Literal Translation
And God speaketh unto Noah, and unto his sons with him, saying,

Berean Standard Bible
Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,

Contemporary English Version
Again, God said to Noah and his sons:

Complete Jewish Bible
(v) God spoke to Noach and his sons with him; he said,

American Standard Version
And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

Bible in Basic English
And God said to Noah and to his sons,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
God spake also vnto Noah, & to his sonnes with hym, saying:

Darby Translation
And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

Easy-to-Read Version
Then God said to Noah and his sons,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And God spoke unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying:

King James Version (1611)
And God spake vnto Noah, and to his sonnes with him, saying;

King James Version
And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

New Life Bible
Then God said to Noah and his sons,

New Revised Standard
Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And God spake unto Noah, and unto his sons with him saying:

Geneva Bible (1587)
God spake also to Noah & to his sonnes with him, saying,

George Lamsa Translation
And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

Good News Translation
God said to Noah and his sons,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thus also said God to Noe, and to his sons with him:

Revised Standard Version
Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And God spoke to Noe, and to his sons with him, saying,

English Revised Version
And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

Christian Standard Bible®
Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,

Hebrew Names Version
God spoke to Noach, and to his sons with him, saying,

Lexham English Bible
And God said to Noah and to his sons with him,

Literal Translation
And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Farthermore, God sayde vnto Noe and to his sonnes wt him:

THE MESSAGE
Then God spoke to Noah and his sons: "I'm setting up my covenant with you including your children who will come after you, along with everything alive around you—birds, farm animals, wild animals—that came out of the ship with you. I'm setting up my covenant with you that never again will everything living be destroyed by floodwaters; no, never again will a flood destroy the Earth."

New American Standard Bible
Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

New King James Version
Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying:

New Living Translation
Then God told Noah and his sons,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

Contextual Overview

⁸Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,⁹"Now behold, I am establishing My covenant (binding agreement, solemn promise) with you and with your descendants after you ¹⁰and with every living creature that is with you—the birds, the livestock, and the wild animals of the earth along with you, of everything that comes out of the ark—every living creature of the earth. ¹¹"I will establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the water of a flood, nor shall there ever again be a flood to destroy and ruin the earth."

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him,.... Not only what is contained in the preceding verses, but in the subsequent ones:

saying; as follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- XXIX. The Covenant with Noah

13. קשׁת qeshet, “bow; related: be bent.”

14. ענן ‛ānan, “cover, cast over; noun: cloud.”

The covenant made with Noah Genesis 6:18 is now formally confirmed. The purpose conceived in the heart Genesis 8:21 now receives significant expression. Not only a new blessing is bestowed, but also a new covenant is formed with Noah. For he that has offered an acceptable sacrifice is not only at peace with God, but renewed in mind after the image of God. He is therefore a fit subject for entering into a covenant.

Genesis 9:8-11

Unto Noah and to his sons. - God addresses the sons of Noah as the progenitors of the future race. “I establish.” He not merely makes כרת kārat, but ratifies, his covenant with them. “My covenant.” The covenant which was before mentioned to Noah in the directions concerning the making of the ark, and which was really, though tacitly, formed with Adam in the garden.

Genesis 9:9-10

The party with whom God now enters into covenant is here fully described. “You and your seed after you, and every breathing living thing;” the latter merely “on account of the former.” The animals are specially mentioned because they partake in the special benefit of preservation from a flood, which is guaranteed in this covenant. There is a remarkable expression employed here - “From all that come out of the ark, to every beast of the land.” It seems to imply that the beast of the land, or the wild beast, was not among those that came out of the ark, and, therefore, not among those that went in. This coincides with the view we have given of the inmates of the ark.

Genesis 9:11

The benefits conferred by this form of God’s covenant are here specified. First, all flesh shall no more be cut off by a flood; secondly, the land shall no more be destroyed by this means. The Lord has been true to his promise in saving Noah and his family from the flood of waters. He now perpetuates his promise by assuring him that the land would not again be overwhelmed with water. This is the new and present blessing of the covenant. Its former blessings are not abrogated, but only confirmed and augmented by the present. Other and higher benefits will flow out of this to those who rightly receive it, even throughout the ages of eternity. The present benefit is shared by the whole race descended from Noah.

Genesis 9:12-16

The token of the covenant is now pointed out. “For perpetual ages.” This stability of sea and land is to last during the remainder of the human period. What is to happen when the race of man is completed, is not the question at present. “My bow.” As God’s covenant is the well-known and still remembered compact formed with man when the command was issued in the Garden of Eden, so God’s bow is the primeval arch, coexistent with the rays of light and the drops of rain. It is caused by the rays of the sun reflected from the falling raindrops at a particular angle to the eye of the spectator. A beautiful arch of reflected and refracted light is in this way formed for every eye. The rainbow is thus an index that the sky is not wholly overcast, since the sun is shining through the shower, and thereby demonstrating its partial extent. There could not, therefore, be a more beautiful or fitting token that there shall be no more a flood to sweep away all flesh and destroy the land.

It comes with its mild radiance only when the cloud condenses into a shower. It consists of heavenly light, variegated in hue, and mellowed in lustre, filling the beholder with an involuntary pleasure. It forms a perfect arch, extends as far as the shower extends, connects heaven and earth, and spans the horizon. In these respects it is a beautiful emblem of mercy rejoicing against judgment, of light from heaven irradiating and beatifying the soul, of grace always sufficient for the need of the reunion of earth and heaven, and of the universality of the offer of salvation. “Have I given.” The rainbow existed as long as the present laws of light and air. But it is now mentioned for the first time, because it now becomes the fitting sign of security from another universal deluge, which is the special blessing of the covenant in its present form. “In the cloud.” When a shower-cloud is spread over the sky, the bow appears, if the sun, the cloud, and the spectator are in the proper relation to one another. 16. “And I will look upon it to remember.” The Scripture is most unhesitating and frank in ascribing to God all the attributes and exercises of personal freedom. While man looks on the bow to recall the promise of God, God himself looks on it to remember and perform this promise. Here freedom and immutability of purpose meet.

The covenant here ostensibly refers to the one point of the absence, for all time to come, of any danger to the human race from a deluge. But it presupposes and supplements the covenant with man subsisting from the very beginning. It is clearly of grace; for the Lord in the very terms affirms the fact that the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth, while at the same time the original transgression belonged to the whole race. The condition by which any man becomes interested in it is not expressed, but easily understood from the nature of a covenant, a promise, and a sign, all of which require of us consenting faith in the party who covenants, promises, and gives the sign. The meritorious condition of the covenant of grace is dimly shadowed forth in the burnt-offerings which Noah presented on coming out of the ark. One thing, however, was surely and clearly revealed to the early saints; namely, the mercy of God. Assured of this, they were prepared humbly to believe that all would rebound to the glory of his holiness, justice, and truth, as well as of his mercy, grace, and love, though they might not yet fully understand how this would be accomplished.

Genesis 9:17

God seems here to direct Noah’s attention to a rainbow actually existing at the time in the sky, and presenting to the patriarch the assurance of the promise, with all the impressiveness of reality.