Genesis 9:12

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

And God said,“This is the guarantee of the covenant I am making with you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all subsequent generations:

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  • Gen 17:11 : 11 You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskins. This will be a reminder of the covenant between me and you.
  • Exod 12:13 : 13 The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, so that when I see the blood I will pass over you, and this plague will not fall on you to destroy you when I attack the land of Egypt.
  • Exod 13:16 : 16 It will be for a sign on your hand and for frontlets on your forehead, for with a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt.”
  • Josh 2:12 : 12 So now, promise me this with an oath sworn in the LORD’s name. Because I have shown allegiance to you, show allegiance to my family. Give me a solemn pledge
  • Matt 26:26-28 : 26 The Lord’s Supper While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after giving thanks he broke it, gave it to his disciples, and said,“Take, eat, this is my body.” 27 And after taking the cup and giving thanks, he gave it to them, saying,“Drink from it, all of you, 28 for this is my blood, the blood of the covenant, that is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
  • 1 Cor 11:23-25 : 23 For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread, 24 and after he had given thanks he broke it and said,“This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” 25 In the same way, he also took the cup after supper, saying,“This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, every time you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
  • Gen 9:17 : 17 So God said to Noah,“This is the guarantee of the covenant that I am confirming between me and all living things that are on the earth.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 9:13-17
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    13I will place my rainbow in the clouds, and it will become a guarantee of the covenant between me and the earth.

    14Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,

    15then I will remember my covenant with you and with all living creatures of all kinds. Never again will the waters become a flood and destroy all living things.

    16When the rainbow is in the clouds, I will notice it and remember the perpetual covenant between God and all living creatures of all kinds that are on the earth.”

    17So God said to Noah,“This is the guarantee of the covenant that I am confirming between me and all living things that are on the earth.”

  • Gen 9:7-11
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    7But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly on the earth and multiply on it.”

    8God said to Noah and his sons,

    9“Look! I now confirm my covenant with you and your descendants after you

    10and with every living creature that is with you, including the birds, the domestic animals, and every living creature of the earth with you, all those that came out of the ark with you– every living creature of the earth.

    11I confirm my covenant with you: Never again will all living things be wiped out by the waters of a flood; never again will a flood destroy the earth.”

  • 7I will confirm my covenant as a perpetual covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

  • Gen 6:17-19
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    17I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die,

    18but I will confirm my covenant with you. You will enter the ark– you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

    19You must bring into the ark two of every kind of living creature from all flesh, male and female, to keep them alive with you.

  • Gen 17:9-11
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    9Then God said to Abraham,“As for you, you must keep the covenantal requirement I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.

    10This is my requirement that you and your descendants after you must keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.

    11You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskins. This will be a reminder of the covenant between me and you.

  • 9“As far as I am concerned, this is like in Noah’s time, when I vowed that the waters of Noah’s flood would never again cover the earth. In the same way I have vowed that I will not be angry at you or shout at you.

  • Gen 9:1-3
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    1God’s Covenant with Humankind through Noah Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them,“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

    2Every living creature of the earth and every bird of the sky will be terrified of you. Everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea are under your authority.

    3You may eat any moving thing that lives. As I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

  • 15Then God spoke to Noah and said,

  • 17Bring out with you all the living creatures that are with you. Bring out every living thing, including the birds, animals, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Let them increase and be fruitful and multiply on the earth!”

  • Ps 105:8-10
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    8He always remembers his covenantal decree, the promise he made to a thousand generations–

    9the promise he made to Abraham, the promise he made by oath to Isaac!

    10He gave it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as a lasting promise,

  • Gen 8:1-2
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    1But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over the earth and the waters receded.

    2The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.

  • 4For in seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made.”

  • 2Then I will confirm my covenant between me and you, and I will give you a multitude of descendants.”

  • 1The LORD said to Noah,“Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.

  • 30And to all the animals of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to all the creatures that move on the ground– everything that has the breath of life in it– I give every green plant for food.” It was so.

  • 21And the LORD smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself,“I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.

  • 60Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish a lasting covenant with you.

  • 12And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

  • Gen 6:13-14
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    13So God said to Noah,“I have decided that all living creatures must die, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Now I am about to destroy them and the earth.

    14Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and out.

  • 20and said,“This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded you to keep.”

  • 22God blessed them and said,“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”

  • 15Remember continually his covenantal decree, the promise he made to a thousand generations–

  • 14It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant by oath,

  • 9I will turn to you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and maintain my covenant with you.

  • 62I will establish my covenant with you, and then you will know that I am the LORD.

  • 12so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the LORD your God is making with you today.

  • 8Pairs of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground,

  • 17He gave it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as a lasting promise,