Genesis 9:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

When 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.”

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  • Gen 17:13 : 13 They must indeed be circumcised, whether born in your house or bought with money. The sign of my covenant will be visible in your flesh as a permanent reminder.
  • Gen 17:19 : 19 God said,“No, Sarah your wife is going to bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will confirm my covenant with him as a perpetual covenant for his descendants after him.
  • 2 Sam 23:5 : 5 My dynasty is approved by God, for he has made a perpetual covenant with me, arranged in all its particulars and secured. He always delivers me, and brings all I desire to fruition.
  • Isa 54:8-9 : 8 In a burst of anger I rejected you momentarily, but with lasting devotion I will have compassion on you,” says your protector, the LORD. 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. 10 Even if the mountains are removed and the hills displaced, my devotion will not be removed from you, nor will my covenant of friendship be displaced,” says the LORD, the one who has compassion on you.
  • Isa 55:3 : 3 Pay attention and come to me! Listen, so you can live! Then I will make an unconditional covenantal promise to you, just like the reliable covenantal promises I made to David.
  • Jer 32:40 : 40 I will make a lasting covenant with them that I will never stop doing good to them. I will fill their hearts and minds with respect for me so that they will never again turn away from me.
  • Heb 13:20 : 20 Benediction and Conclusion Now may the God of peace who by the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep, our Lord Jesus,
  • Ps 89:3-4 : 3 The LORD said,“I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have made a promise on oath to David, my servant: 4 ‘I will give you an eternal dynasty and establish your throne throughout future generations.’”(Selah)
  • Gen 8:21-22 : 21 And 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. 22 “While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
  • Gen 9:9-9 : 9 “Look! I now confirm my covenant with you and your descendants after you 10 and 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. 11 I 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.”
  • Gen 17:7 : 7 I 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 9:8-15
    8 verses
    92%

    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.”

    12And 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:

    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.

  • Gen 9:17
    88%

    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 8:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    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.

  • Isa 54:9
    73%

    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 7:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    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.”

    5And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.

  • Gen 6:17-19
    3 verses
    73%

    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 8:13-17
    5 verses
    72%

    13In Noah’s six hundred and first year, in the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth, and Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

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

    15Then God spoke to Noah and said,

    16“Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.

    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!”

  • Gen 9:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    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.

  • Gen 6:8
    70%

    8But Noah found favor in the sight of the LORD.

  • Gen 7:12
    70%

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

  • Ezek 16:60
    70%

    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.

  • Gen 8:21
    69%

    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.

  • Gen 7:1
    69%

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

  • Gen 6:13
    69%

    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.

  • Gen 8:6
    69%

    6At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

  • Gen 7:10
    69%

    10And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed the earth.

  • Gen 8:9-11
    3 verses
    69%

    9The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, and brought it back into the ark.

    10He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark.

    11When the dove returned to him in the evening, there was a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

  • Gen 17:7
    69%

    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.

  • Lev 26:42
    69%

    42I will remember my covenant with Jacob and also my covenant with Isaac and also my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.

  • Gen 7:23-24
    2 verses
    68%

    23So the LORD destroyed every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.

    24The waters prevailed over the earth for 150 days.

  • Gen 7:17-18
    2 verses
    68%

    17The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.

    18The waters completely overwhelmed the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

  • Gen 9:28
    67%

    28After the flood Noah lived 350 years.

  • Gen 8:19
    67%

    19Every living creature, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth went out of the ark in their groups.

  • Ezek 16:62
    67%

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

  • Gen 7:8
    67%

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