The Mighty One's Covenant Of Life
Beresheet (Genesis) 6: 13-22
6:13The
Mighty One said to Noach, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for
the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them
with the earth. 6:14Make an ark of
gofer wood. You shall make rooms in the ark, and shall seal it inside and
outside with kofer. 6:15This is how
you shall make it. The length of the ark will be three hundred cubits, the
breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. 6:16You shall make a roof in the ark, and to a
cubit shall you finish it upward. You shall set the door of the ark in the side
of it. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels. 6:17I, even, I do bring the flood of waters on
this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky.
Everything that is in the earth will die. 6:18But
I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ark, you, your
sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you. 6:19Of
every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the
ark, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female. 6:20Of the birds after their kind, of the
cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind,
two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive. 6:21Take with you of all food that is eaten,
and gather it to you; and it will be for food for you, and for them. 6:22Thus Noach did. According to all that The
Mighty One commanded him, so he did.
6: 18 implies that the covenant the Mighty One was to establish with Noach was a covenant of life, for the preservation of life, contrasted to his then impending action of destroying all flesh from under the sky!
The Mighty One's Covenant With All Flesh
Beresheet 9: 8-17
9:8The
Mighty One spoke to Noach, and to his sons with him, saying, 9:9"As for me, behold, I establish my
covenant with you, and with your offspring after you, 9:10and with every living creature that is with
you: the birds, the cattle, and every animal of the earth with you. Of all that
go out of the ark, even every animal of the earth. 9:11I will establish my covenant with you; neither will all
flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither will there any
more be a flood to destroy the earth." 9:12The
Mighty One said, "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: 9:13I set my rainbow in
the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth. 9:14It will happen, when I bring a cloud over
the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud, 9:15and 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. 9:16The
rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the
everlasting covenant between The Mighty One and every living creature of all
flesh that is on the earth." 9:17The
Mighty One said to Noach, "This is the token of the covenant which I have
established between me and all flesh that is on the earth."
The Mighty One's everlasting covenant with all flesh on the earth, not to destroy them with the waters of a flood.
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