Genesis 9:9
New International Version
“I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you

New Living Translation
“I hereby confirm my covenant with you and your descendants,

English Standard Version
“Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you,

Berean Standard Bible
“Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,

King James Bible
And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

New King James Version
“And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your descendants after you,

New American Standard Bible
“Now behold, I Myself am establishing My covenant with you, and with your descendants after you;

NASB 1995
“Now behold, I Myself do establish My covenant with you, and with your descendants after you;

NASB 1977
“Now behold, I Myself do establish My covenant with you, and with your descendants after you;

Legacy Standard Bible
“As for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your seed after you;

Amplified Bible
“Now behold, I am establishing My covenant (binding agreement, solemn promise) with you and with your descendants after you

Christian Standard Bible
“Understand that I am establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Understand that I am confirming My covenant with you and your descendants after you,

American Standard Version
And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“Behold, I am establishing my covenant with you and with your seed after you;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And behold I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you,

Contemporary English Version
I am going to make a solemn promise to you and to everyone who will live after you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold I will establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you:

English Revised Version
And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"I am going to make my promise to you, your descendants,

Good News Translation
"I am now making my covenant with you and with your descendants,

International Standard Version
"Pay attention! I'm establishing my covenant with you and with your descendants after you,

JPS Tanakh 1917
As for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

Literal Standard Version
“And I, behold, I am establishing My covenant with you, and with your seed after you,

Majority Standard Bible
“Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,

New American Bible
See, I am now establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you

NET Bible
"Look! I now confirm my covenant with you and your descendants after you

New Revised Standard Version
“As for me, I am establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you,

New Heart English Bible
"And as for me, look, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,

Webster's Bible Translation
And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

World English Bible
“As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,

Young's Literal Translation
'And I, lo, I am establishing My covenant with you, and with your seed after you,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Covenant of the Rainbow
8Then God said to Noah and his sons with him, 9“Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you, 10and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth—every living thing that came out of the ark.…

Cross References
Genesis 6:18
But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark--you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.

Genesis 9:8
Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,

Genesis 9:10
and with every living creature that was with you--the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth--every living thing that came out of the ark.


Treasury of Scripture

And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

Genesis 9:11,17
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 flood to destroy the earth…

Genesis 6:18
But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.

Genesis 17:7,8
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee…

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Genesis 9
1. God blesses Noah and his sons, and grants them flesh for food.
4. Blood and murder are forbidden.
8. God's covenant, of which the rainbow was constituted a pledge.
18. Noah's family replenishes the world.
20. Noah plants a vineyard,
21. Is drunken, and mocked by his son;
25. Curses Canaan;
26. Blesses Shem;
27. Prays for Japheth, and dies.














(9) I, behold, I establish my covenant . . . The covenant between God and man is thus solemnly introduced as Elohim's personal act. No covenant is mentioned as existing between Elohim and the antediluvian world; but distinctly now there is a step onward in all respects, and man, in the renovated earth after the flood, is brought nearer to God by being admitted into covenant with Him. And not only is man included in the covenant, but, first, those animals which had been with Noah in the ark; and, secondly, those which had not been admitted there. For the words of Genesis 9:10 are: "From all that go out of the ark unto every beast of the earth" (the larger world). To such straits are those reduced who hold to the theory of a universal deluge, that Kalisch argues that it means the fish, as if fishes would be destroyed by a second flood any more than they were by the first. Plainly, the words imply the existence of a larger world-sphere than that in connection with Noah, and give the assurance that not only those now providentially preserved, but the animals everywhere, shall never again be in danger of a similar extinction.

Verse 9. - And I, behold, I establish - literally, am causing to rise up or stand; ἀνίστημι (LXX.) - my covenant (cf. Genesis 6:18) with you, and with your seed after you. I.e. the covenant contemplated all subsequent posterity in its provisions, and, along with the human family, the entire animal creation.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
“Behold,
הִנְנִ֥י (hin·nî)
Interjection | first person common singular
Strong's 2005: Lo! behold!

I now
וַאֲנִ֕י (wa·’ă·nî)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 589: I

establish
מֵקִ֛ים (mê·qîm)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand

My covenant
בְּרִיתִ֖י (bə·rî·ṯî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 1285: A covenant

with you
אִתְּכֶ֑ם (’it·tə·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's 854: Nearness, near, with, by, at, among

and your
וְאֶֽת־ (wə·’eṯ-)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's 854: Nearness, near, with, by, at, among

descendants
זַרְעֲכֶ֖ם (zar·‘ă·ḵem)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 2233: Seed, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity

after you,
אַֽחֲרֵיכֶֽם׃ (’a·ḥă·rê·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's 310: The hind or following part


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