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Genesis 9:15

in Genesis 9

I will remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

KJV

And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

This verse in Genesis 9

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Whenever I form clouds over the earth

on Genesis 9:14-17

God says twice that He will see the rainbow and remember the covenant, at verse 15 and verse 16. The keeping of it rests on the one who made it. The sign is set to appear when the clouds gather, which is the hour the old fear would come back.

This site's exposition

I will remember My covenant

When God remembers in Genesis, He acts, as at 8:1, when He remembered Noah and the waters went down. The rainbow calls the covenant to mind whenever clouds form. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown picture each shower after the flood met with joy.

The record, by era

The Medieval Church1 voice

A commentator

Bede

Commentary on Genesis (Hexaemeron) · Written before 735.

proposed

I will place my bow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth; and when I cover the sky with clouds, my bow will appear, and I will remember my covenant with you and with every …

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And I will remember my covenant which is between me and you, and every living creature of all flesh,....

The words behind it

20 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְזָכַרְתִּ֣יand I will remember

    vezakhartiH2142 →230 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • בְּרִיתִ֗יcovenant my

    beritiH1285 →284 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֤רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • בֵּינִי֙[is] between me

    beiniH996 →407 times

  • וּבֵ֣ינֵיכֶ֔םand between you

    uveineikhemH996 →407 times

  • וּבֵ֛יןand between

    uveinH996 →407 times

  • כָּל־every

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • נֶ֥פֶשׁcreature

    nefeshH5315 →754 times

  • חַיָּ֖הliving

    chaiyahH2416 →498 times

  • בְּכָל־among all

    bekholH3605 →5413 times

  • בָּשָׂ֑רflesh

    basarH1320 →270 times

  • וְלֹֽא־and not

    velo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • יִֽהְיֶ֨ה<it> will become

    yihyehH1961 →3559 times

  • ע֤וֹדagain

    odH5750 →490 times

  • הַמַּ֙יִם֙the water

    hamayimH4325 →581 times

  • לְמַבּ֔וּל<into> a flood

    lemabulH3999 →13 times

  • לְשַׁחֵ֖תto destroy

    leshachetH7843 →146 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • בָּשָֽׂר׃flesh

    basarH1320 →270 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 7:9

    Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.

    it leads to

    • Hebrews 10:23

      Let us hold resolutely to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.

    • 2 Timothy 2:13

      if we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.

    • 2 Thessalonians 3:3

      But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.

    • Daniel 9:4

      And I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed, “O, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving devotion to those who love Him and keep His commandments,

    • 1 Corinthians 1:9

      God, who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 16:60

    But I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.

    it leads to

    • Hosea 2:19–20

      So I will betroth you to Me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in loving devotion and compassion.

    • Hebrews 8:10

      For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And…

  • Through

    Exodus 28:12

    Fasten both stones on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons of Israel. Aaron is to bear their names on his two shoulders as a memorial before the LORD.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 28:29

      Whenever Aaron enters the Holy Place, he shall bear the names of the sons of Israel over his heart on the breastpiece of judgment, as a continual reminder before the LORD.

Where this verse is studied

About Genesis

Noah Curses Ham and Canaan — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Noah Curses Ham and Canaan — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on Bede, Commentary on Genesis (Hexaemeron); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.