Genesis 9:10
8 Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,
9 “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.
11 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.”
12 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:
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- 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.
- KJV
- And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
- WEB
- and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.
- ASV
- and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you. Of all that go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.
- DARBY
- and with every living soul which is with you, fowl as well as cattle, and all the animals of the earth with you, of all that has gone out of the ark every animal of the earth.
- BLB
- and with every living creature that [is] with you⁺, among the bird, among the livestock, and among every beast of the earth with you⁺, from all those going out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
- ÅB
- og med alt levende som er hos dere, både fugler og fe og alle de ville dyr som er hos dere, alt som gikk ut av arken, alt som lever på jorden.
- OTB
- og med hver levende skapning som er med dere: fuglene, buskapen og alle de ville dyrene, alle som kom ut av arken med dere—hver levende skapning på jorden.
- B1930
- og med alt levende som er hos eder, både fugler og fe og alle de ville dyr som er hos eder, alt som gikk ut av arken, alt som lever på jorden.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 145:9
The LORD is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.
Read in contextJob 38:1–41
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
Read in contextJob 41:1–34
“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
Read in contextGenesis 9:15–16
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.
Read in contextPsalms 36:5–6
Your loving devotion, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.
Read in contextGenesis 8:1
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.
Read in contextJonah 4:11
So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”
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