Genesis 9:9

9 “I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you

Genesis 9:9 in Other Translations

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

9 "Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you,

9 “I hereby confirm my covenant with you and your descendants,

9 "I'm setting up my covenant with you including your children who will come after you,

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

9 "I am going to make my promise to you, your descendants,

9 "Understand that I am confirming My covenant with you and your descendants after you,

9 "I am now making my covenant with you and with all of your children who will be born after you.

Genesis 9:9 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 9:9

And [I], behold, [I] establish my covenant with you
Not the covenant of grace in Christ, but of the preservation of the creatures in common, a promise that they should not be destroyed any more by a flood; to which promise it seems an oath was annexed, as appears from ( Isaiah 54:9 ) which passage refers to this covenant, as Aben Ezra on the place observes; and both to raise attention to what is here affirmed, and to show the certainty of it, the word "behold" is prefixed to it; nor is it amiss what Jarchi observes, that this follows upon the direction and exhortation to procreation of children, and is an encouragement to it; since it is assured that posterity should be no more cut off in the manner it had been; for this covenant was made and established not only with Noah, and his sons, but with all their succeeding offspring, as follows: and with your seed after you;
with all their posterity to the end of the world; so that this covenant was made with all the world, and all the individuals in it, from Noah's time to the end of it; for from him and his sons sprung the whole race of men that peopled the world, and still continue to inhabit it; hence here is nothing in it peculiar to the seed of believers.

Genesis 9:9 In-Context

7 As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.”

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

9 “I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you

10 and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth.

11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

Cross References

• 1. ver 11; S Genesis 6:18