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11 Thus aI establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.”  
12 And God said: a“This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:  
13 I set aMy rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.  
14 It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud;
15 and aI will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.  
16 The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember athe everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”  
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.”

Noah and His Sons

18 Now the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. aAnd Ham was the father of Canaan.  
19 aThese three were the sons of Noah, band from these the whole earth was populated.  
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Genesis 9:13

I set my bow in the clouds - The rainbow, 'tis likely was seen in the clouds before, but was never a seal of the covenant 'till now. Now, concerning this seal of the covenant, observe, This seal is affixed with repeated assurances of the truth of that promise, which it was designed to be the ratification of; I do set my bow in the cloud, Genesis 9:13. It shall be seen in the cloud, Genesis 9:14. and it shall be a token of the covenant, Genesis 9:12-13. And I will remember my covenant, that the waters shall no more become a flood, Genesis 9:15. Nay, as if the eternal Mind needed a memorandum, I will look upon it that I may remember the everlasting covenant, Genesis 9:16. The rainbow appears when the clouds are most disposed to wet; when we have most reason to fear the rain prevailing, God shews this seal of the promise that it shall not prevail. The rainbow appears when one part of the sky is clear, which imitates mercy remembered in the midst of wrath, and the clouds are hemmed as it were with the rainbow, that it may not overspread the heavens, for the bow is coloured rain, or the edges of a cloud gilded. As God looks upon the bow that he may remember the covenant, so should we, that we also may be ever mindful of the covenant with faith and thankfulness.




Other John Wesley's Notes entries containing Genesis 9:13:

Genesis 9:13
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Job 37:15

 

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