“As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
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“As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
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And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
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'As for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
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Passages linked to Genesis 9:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 6:18 But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
- Isaiah 54:9-10 “For this is like the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah will no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you. For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace will not be removed,” says Yahweh who has mercy on you.
- Romans 1:3 concerning his Son, who was born of the offspring of David according to the flesh,
- Genesis 9:11 I will establish my covenant with you: All flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood. There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
- Genesis 9:17 God said to Noah, “This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”
- Genesis 17:7-8 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you. I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God.”
- Genesis 22:17 that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.
- Jeremiah 33:20 “Yahweh says: ‘If you can break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night, so that there will not be day and night in their time;
- Jeremiah 31:35-36 Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name, says: “If these ordinances depart from before me,” says Yahweh, “then the offspring of Israel also will cease from being a nation before me forever.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain To assure you that the world shall be no…
To assure you that the world shall be no more destroyed by a flood.
The children which are not yet born, are comprehended in God’s covenant made with their fathers.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 9:9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant…
Gen 9:9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
Ver. 9. And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you.] This covenant God had made with them before the flood; but here he renews it for their further confirmation: for he knows our infirmities, and therefore seals again. This covenant is said to be made with an oath, {Isa 54:9} yet we find no such thing here expressed, because God’s bare word is as sure as an oath. So God is said to have sworn to Abraham, that which he said to him only. {Exo 32:13, with Gen 12:7}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain i.e. My promise, for the beasts included in this…
i.e. My promise, for the beasts included in this covenant, Gen 9:10, are not capable of a covenant properly so called. And the word
covenant is oft used for a simple promise, as we shall see hereafter.
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With your seed, i.e. your posterity, as that word is frequently taken, as Gen 12:7; Exo 28:43, &c.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you,....…
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 Isa 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.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain We have here the general establishment of God's covenant…
We have here the general establishment of God's covenant with this new world, and the extent of that covenant.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Gen 9:9. Behold, I establish my covenant, &c. —…
Gen 9:9. Behold, I establish my covenant, &c. — We have here the general establishment of God’s covenant with this new world, and the extent of that covenant.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 8–17b. The Covenant with Noah
8–17b. The Covenant with Noah
9. I, behold, I] Cf. Gen_6:17, “I, behold, I do bring the flood of waters.” The same personal emphasis is expressed in proclaiming the mercy of the covenant as previously in the sentence of doom.
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establish my covenant] See Gen_6:18. The Pentateuch mentions three covenants between God and man: (1) with Noah, and its token is the rainbow; (2) with Abraham, 15 and 17, and its token is circumcision, chap. 17; (3) with the people of Israel at Mt Sinai, and its tokens are “the blood of the covenant,” the Tabernacle, and the Levitical system (Exodus 24, 25.).
In a covenant between God and man, God makes the promise and lays down the conditions. Man accepts the terms unconditionally, while God “establishes,” or ratifies, them.
There is no equality of relationship as in a covenant agreement between men. Man is pledged to obedience on the strength of God’s promise of blessing. An outward sign is the “sacrament” of the relation.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (9) I, behold, I establish my covenant . .…
(9) I, behold, I establish my covenant . . . The covenant between God and man is thus solemnly introduced as Elohim’s personal act. No covenant is mentioned as existing between Elohim and the antediluvian world; but distinctly now there is a step onward in all respects, and man, in the renovated earth after the flood, is brought nearer to God by being admitted into covenant with Him. And not only is man included in the covenant, but, first, those animals which had been with Noah in the ark; and, secondly, those which had not been admitted there. For the words of Gen_9:10 are: “From all that go out of the ark unto every beast of the earth” (the larger world). To such straits are those reduced who hold to the theory of a universal deluge, that Kalisch argues that it means the fish, as if fishes would be destroyed by a second flood any more than they were by the first. Plainly, the words imply the existence of a larger world-sphere than that in connection with Noah, and give the assurance that not only those now providentially preserved, but the animals everywhere, shall never again be in danger of a similar extinction.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And I, behold, I establish literally, am causing to…
And I, behold, I establish literally, am causing to rise up or stand; ajnisthmi (LXX)my covenant (cf. Gen_6:18) with you, and with your seed after you. Ie. the covenant contemplated all subsequent posterity in its provisions, and, along with the human family, the entire animal creation.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 9:9-10 God had promised this covenant before the flood…
9:9-10 God had promised this covenant before the flood (6:18). Its scope extends beyond humanity to include the earth and all animals.
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