Genesis 9 delivers God’s first covenant with all of creation - the Noahic covenant, sealed by a rainbow as an everlasting sign of divine faithfulness.
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Lyrics
God blessed Noah and his sons And said to them Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth
The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth And on every bird of the sky Everything that moves along the ground And all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand Every moving thing that lives will be food for you As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you
But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood At the hand of every animal I will require it At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother
I will require the life of man Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man For God made man in his own image Be fruitful and multiply
God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him saying As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you And with your offspring after you 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 I will establish my covenant with you All flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth
This is the token of the covenant which I make Between me and you and every living creature That is with you, for perpetual generations I set my rainbow in the cloud And it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth
When I bring a cloud over the earth That the rainbow will be seen in the cloud I will remember my covenant which is between me and you And every living creature of all flesh And the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh
The rainbow will be in the cloud I will look at it That I may remember the everlasting covenant Between God and every living creature of all flesh That is on the earth
This is the token of the covenant which I have established Between me and all flesh that is on the earth
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