Genesis 9:15 — Meaning and Application

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“And I will remember my covenant, which {is} between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.”

Genesis 9:15

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I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:

And I will remember my covenant, which {is} between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that {is} upon the earth.

And God said unto Noah, This {is} the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that {is} upon the earth.

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Genesis 9:1

"And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth."

Genesis 9:2

"And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth {upon} the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered."

Genesis 9:3

"Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things."

Genesis 9:4

"But flesh with the life thereof, {which is} the blood thereof, shall ye not eat."

Genesis 9:5

"And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man."

Genesis 9:6

"Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man."

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