Genesis 9:12
And God said: “This is the sign of the pact that I grant between me and you, and to every living soul that is with you, for perpetual generations.
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In Context
13I will place my arc in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the pact between myself and the earth.
Cross References
Genesis 9:17And God said to Noah, “This will be the sign of the covenant that I have established between myself and all that is flesh upon the earth.”
Exodus 12:13But the blood will be for you as a sign in the buildings where you will be. And I will see the blood, and I will pass over you. And the plague will not be with you to destroy, when I strike the land of Egypt.
Joshua 2:12Now, therefore, swear to me by the Lord that in the same way that I have acted with mercy toward you, so also shall you act toward the house of my father. And may you give me a true sign
1 Corinthians 11:23For I have received from the Lord what I have also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus, on the same night that he was handed over, took bread,
Matthew Henry on Genesis 9:9-12
God's Covenant with Noah. ( b. c. 2347.) 8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, 9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; 10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. 11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a… Read the whole commentary →