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Genesis 9:9
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"As for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your seed after you;
"Now behold, I Myself do establish My covenant with you, and with your descendants after you;
Beholde, I, euen I establishe my couenaunt with you, and with your seede after you:
"I now make my promise to you and to your people who will live after you.
"Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your descendants after you,
Y schal make my couenaunt with you, and with your seed after you,
And I, behold, I establish my couenant with you, and with your seede after you:
And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
Beholde, I make my couenaunt with you, and with youre sede after you,
"Now behold, I Myself am establishing My covenant with you, and with your descendants after you;
And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
Truly, I will make my agreement with you and with your seed after you,
And I, look, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
"As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
"Look! I now confirm my covenant with you and your descendants after you
"And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your descendants [fn] after you,
I am going to make a solemn promise to you and to everyone who will live after you.
"As for me — I am herewith establishing my covenant with you, with your descendants after you,
And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
Behold, I, euen I establish my couenant with you, and with your seede after you,
As for me, behold, I will establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you;
"I am now making my covenant with you and with your descendants,
"As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
'As for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
"I hereby confirm my covenant with you and your descendants,
"See, I make My agreement with you, and with your children after you,
"As for me, I am establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you,
And behold I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you,
And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
"Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,
I, therefore, behold me! establishing my covenant with you, - and with your seed after you;
Behold I will establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you:
"As for me, behold, I am establishing my covenant with you and with your seed after you,
Behold! I, even I, am establishing My covenant with you, and with your seed after you,
"Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you,
"Now I am making my agreement with you and your people who will live after you,
"Understand that I am confirming My covenant with you and your descendants after you,
`And I, lo, I am establishing My covenant with you, and with your seed after you,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Genesis 9:11, Genesis 9:17, Genesis 6:18, Genesis 17:7, Genesis 17:8, Genesis 22:17, Isaiah 54:9, Isaiah 54:10, Jeremiah 31:35, Jeremiah 31:36, Jeremiah 33:20, Romans 1:3
Reciprocal: Genesis 6:17 - behold Genesis 9:16 - everlasting Genesis 17:2 - And I Exodus 14:17 - behold Numbers 18:6 - And I Judges 5:3 - even I Psalms 57:10 - truth Isaiah 27:3 - I the Jeremiah 33:25 - If my
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"But I will establish My covenant (solemn promise, formal agreement) with you; and you shall come into the ark—you and your [three] sons and your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
"As for you, be fruitful and multiply; Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it."
Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
"Now behold, I am establishing My covenant (binding agreement, solemn promise) with you and with your descendants after you
and 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.
"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."
And God said to Noah, "This [rainbow] is the sign of the covenant (solemn pledge, binding agreement) which I have established between Me and all living things on the earth."
indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens and like the sand on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies [by conquering them].
"Thus says the LORD, 'If you can break My covenant for the day and My covenant for the night, so that day and night do not take place at their appointed times,
[the good news] regarding His Son, who, as to the flesh [His human nature], was born a descendant of David [to fulfill the covenant promises],
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And [I], behold, [I] establish my covenant with you,.... Not the covenant of grace in Christ, but of the preservation of the creatures in common, a promise that they should not be destroyed any more by a flood; to which promise it seems an oath was annexed, as appears from Isaiah 54:9 which passage refers to this covenant, as Aben Ezra on the place observes; and both to raise attention to what is here affirmed, and to show the certainty of it, the word "behold" is prefixed to it; nor is it amiss what Jarchi observes, that this follows upon the direction and exhortation to procreation of children, and is an encouragement to it; since it is assured that posterity should be no more cut off in the manner it had been; for this covenant was made and established not only with Noah, and his sons, but with all their succeeding offspring, as follows:
and with your seed after you; with all their posterity to the end of the world; so that this covenant was made with all the world, and all the individuals in it, from Noah's time to the end of it; for from him and his sons sprung the whole race of men that peopled the world, and still continue to inhabit it; hence here is nothing in it peculiar to the seed of believers.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
- XXIX. The Covenant with Noah
13. קש×ת qeshet, âbow; related: be bent.â
14. ×¢× × âaÌnan, âcover, cast over; noun: cloud.â
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. âI establish.â He not merely makes ×רת kaÌrat, but ratifies, his covenant with them. âMy covenant.â 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. âYou and your seed after you, and every breathing living thing;â the latter merely âon account of the former.â 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 - âFrom all that come out of the ark, to every beast of the land.â 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 Godâs 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. âFor perpetual ages.â 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. âMy bow.â As Godâs covenant is the well-known and still remembered compact formed with man when the command was issued in the Garden of Eden, so Godâs 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. âHave I given.â 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. âIn the cloud.â 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. âAnd I will look upon it to remember.â 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 manâs 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 Noahâs 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.
