Genesis 9:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the bow will be in the cloud, and looking on it, I will keep in mind the eternal agreement between God and every living thing on the earth.

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  • Gen 17:13 : 13 He who comes to birth in your house and he who is made yours for a price, all are to undergo circumcision; so that my agreement may be marked in your flesh, an agreement for all time.
  • Gen 17:19 : 19 And God said, Not so; but Sarah, your wife, will have a son, and you will give him the name Isaac, and I will make my agreement with him for ever and with his seed after him.
  • 2 Sam 23:5 : 5 For is not my house so with God? For he has made with me an eternal agreement, ordered in all things and certain: as for all my salvation and all my desire, will he not give it increase?
  • Isa 54:8-9 : 8 In overflowing wrath my face was veiled from you for a minute, but I will have pity on you for ever, says the Lord who takes up your cause. 9 For this is like the days of Noah to me: for as I took an oath that the waters of Noah would never again go over the earth, so have I taken an oath that I will not again be angry with you, or say bitter words to you. 10 For the mountains may be taken away, and the hills be moved out of their places, but my love will not be taken from you, or my agreement of peace broken, says the Lord, who has had mercy on you.
  • Isa 55:3 : 3 Give ear, and come to me, take note with care, so that your souls may have life: and I will make an eternal agreement with you, even the certain mercies of David.
  • Jer 32:40 : 40 And I will make an eternal agreement with them, that I will never give them up, but ever do them good; and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they will not go away from me.
  • Heb 13:20 : 20 Now may the God of peace, who made that great keeper of his flock, even our Lord Jesus, come back from the dead through the blood of the eternal agreement,
  • Ps 89:3-4 : 3 I have made an agreement with the man of my selection, I have made an oath to David my servant; 4 I will make your seed go on for ever, your kingdom will be strong through all generations. (Selah.)
  • Gen 8:21-22 : 21 And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done. 22 While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end.
  • Gen 9:9-9 : 9 Truly, I will make my agreement with you and with your seed after you, 10 And with every living thing with you, all birds and cattle and every beast of the earth which comes out of the ark with you. 11 And I will make my agreement with you; never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters; never again will the waters come over all the earth for its destruction.
  • Gen 17:7 : 7 And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 9:8-15
    8 verses
    92%

    8 And God said to Noah and to his sons,

    9 Truly, I will make my agreement with you and with your seed after you,

    10 And with every living thing with you, all birds and cattle and every beast of the earth which comes out of the ark with you.

    11 And I will make my agreement with you; never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters; never again will the waters come over all the earth for its destruction.

    12 And God said, This is the sign of the agreement which I make between me and you and every living thing with you, for all future generations:

    13 I will put my bow in the cloud and it will be for a sign of the agreement between me and the earth.

    14 And whenever I make a cloud come over the earth, the bow will be seen in the cloud,

    15 And I will keep in mind the agreement between me and you and every living thing; and never again will there be a great flow of waters causing destruction to all flesh.

  • Gen 9:17
    88%

    17 And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the agreement which I have made between me and all flesh on the earth.

  • Gen 8:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1 And God kept Noah in mind, and all the living things and the cattle which were with him in the ark: and God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters went down.

    2 And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were shut, and the rain from heaven was stopped.

  • Isa 54:9
    73%

    9 For this is like the days of Noah to me: for as I took an oath that the waters of Noah would never again go over the earth, so have I taken an oath that I will not again be angry with you, or say bitter words to you.

  • Gen 7:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4 For after seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, for the destruction of every living thing which I have made on the face of the earth.

    5 And Noah did everything which the Lord said he was to do.

  • Gen 6:17-19
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    73%

    17 For truly, I will send a great flow of waters over the earth, for the destruction from under the heaven of all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything on the earth will come to an end.

    18 But with you I will make an agreement; and you will come into the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.

    19 And you will take with you into the ark two of every sort of living thing, and keep them safe with you; they will be male and female.

  • Gen 8:13-17
    5 verses
    72%

    13 And in the six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters were dry on the earth: and Noah took the cover off the ark and saw that the face of the earth was dry.

    14 And on the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.

    15 And God said to Noah,

    16 Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives.

    17 Take out with you every living thing which is with you, birds and cattle and everything which goes on the earth, so that they may have offspring and be fertile and be increased on the earth.

  • Gen 9:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1 And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full.

    2 And the fear of you will be strong in every beast of the earth and every bird of the air; everything which goes on the land, and all the fishes of the sea, are given into your hands.

  • Gen 6:8
    70%

    8 But Noah had grace in the eyes of God.

  • Gen 7:12
    70%

    12 And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

  • Ezek 16:60
    70%

    60 But still I will keep in mind the agreement made with you in the days when you were young, and I will make with you an eternal agreement.

  • Gen 8:21
    69%

    21 And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.

  • Gen 7:1
    69%

    1 And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.

  • Gen 6:13
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    13 And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come; the earth is full of their violent doings, and now I will put an end to them with the earth.

  • Gen 8:6
    69%

    6 Then, after forty days, through the open window of the ark which he had made,

  • Gen 7:10
    69%

    10 And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth.

  • Gen 8:9-11
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    69%

    9 But the dove saw no resting-place for her foot, and came back to the ark, for the waters were still over all the earth; and he put out his hand, and took her into the ark.

    10 And after waiting another seven days, he sent the dove out again;

    11 And the dove came back at evening, and in her mouth was an olive-leaf broken off: so Noah was certain that the waters had gone down on the earth.

  • Gen 17:7
    69%

    7 And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

  • Lev 26:42
    69%

    42 Then I will keep in mind the agreement which I made with Jacob and with Isaac and with Abraham, and I will keep in mind the land.

  • Gen 7:23-24
    2 verses
    68%

    23 Every living thing on the face of all the earth, man and cattle and things moving on the face of the earth, and birds of the air, came to destruction: only Noah and those who were with him in the ark, were kept from death.

    24 And the waters were over the earth a hundred and fifty days.

  • Gen 7:17-18
    2 verses
    68%

    17 And for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth.

    18 And the waters overcame everything and were increased greatly on the earth, and the ark was resting on the face of the waters.

  • Gen 9:28
    67%

    28 And Noah went on living three hundred and fifty years after the great flow of waters;

  • Gen 8:19
    67%

    19 And every beast and bird and every living thing of every sort which goes on the earth, went out of the ark.

  • Ezek 16:62
    67%

    62 And I will make my agreement with you; and you will be certain that I am the Lord:

  • Gen 7:8
    67%

    8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts which are not clean, and of birds, and of everything which goes on the earth,