God made an awesome agreement with Noah.
Def. agreement.
• Law a contract drawn up by deed.
• Law a clause in a contract.
Theology an agreement that brings about a relationship of commitment between God and his people. The Jewish faith is based on the biblical covenants made with Abraham, Moses, and David.
An agreement must have some signature confirming it.
Covenant:
tyîrV;b berith [136b]; from an unused word; a covenant.
Related Sounds:
1254a. a∂rD;b bara [135b]; a prim. root; to shape, create:
beriah [135c]; from 1254a; a creation, thing created
1252. rO;b bor [141b]; from 1305; cleanness, pureness:
barak [138c]; a prim. root; to kneel, bless:
1305. barar [140d]; a prim. root; to purify, select:
barach [137d]; a prim. root; to go through, flee
barah [136a]; a prim. root; to eat:
baraq [140b]; a prim. root; to flash (of lightning)
barod [136a]; from the same as 1259; spotted, marked
barad [135d]; from an unused word; hail:
Gen. 6:18 But I will confirm my covenant with you. So enter the boat—you and your wife and your sons and their wives.
Gen. 6:22 ¶ So Noah did everything exactly as God had commanded him.
Gen. 7:1 ¶ When everything was ready, the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the boat with all your family, for among all the people of the earth, I can see that you alone are righteous.
Gen. 7:4 Seven days from now I will make the rains pour down on the earth. And it will rain for forty days and forty nights, until I have wiped from the earth all the living things I have created.”
Gen. 7:5 ¶ So Noah did everything as the LORD commanded him.
Gen. 7:6 ¶ Noah was 600 years old when the flood covered the earth.
Gen. 7:7 He went on board the boat to escape the flood—he and his wife and his sons and their wives.
Gen. 7:8 With them were all the various kinds of animals—those approved for eating and for sacrifice and those that were not—along with all the birds and the small animals that scurry along the ground.
Gen. 9:11 “I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
Gen. 9:12 God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations;
Gen. 9:13 I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.
Gen. 9:14 “It shall come about, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud,
Gen. 9:15 and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Gen. 9:16 “When the bow is in the cloud, then I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”
Gen. 9:17 And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”
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