Quotes About Covenant

And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.

In the six hundredth year of Noahís life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—

They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.

And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.

And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.

But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.

On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.

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

Then God said to Noah,

“Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives.

So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sonsí wives.

Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.

When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.

And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,

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

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.

And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:

I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.