Quotes About Covenant

Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,

I will remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.

And whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of every kind that is on the earth.”

So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and every creature on the earth.”

May God expand the territory of Japheth; may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant.”

After the flood, Noah lived 350 years.

So Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.

This is the account of Noahís sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.

This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.

And after he had become the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

When Arphaxad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelah.

And after he had become the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

And after he had become the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.

This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.

And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abramís wife was named Sarai, and Nahorís wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.

Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your fatherís household, and go to the land I will show you.

I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the LORD.

And Abram journeyed on toward the Negev.

Why did you say, ëShe is my sister,í so that I took her as my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!”

to the site where he had built the altar. And there Abram called on the name of the LORD.

After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,

for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.