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8 Then God said to Noah and his sons with him, 9 "Understand that I am establishing my covenant  * with you and your descendants after you, 10 and with every living creature that is with you — birds, livestock, and all wildlife of the earth that are with you — all the animals of the earth that came out of the ark. 11 I establish my covenant with you that never again will every creature be wiped out by floodwaters; there will never again be a flood to destroy the earth."  *

12 And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant  * I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all future generations: 13 I have placed my bow in the clouds,  * and it will be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

11 I establish my covenant with you that never again will every creature be wiped out by floodwaters; there will never again be a flood to destroy the earth."  *

13 I have placed my bow in the clouds,  * and it will be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, "I give this land to your offspring,  * from the Brook of Egypt  * to the great river, the Euphrates River: 19 the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 20 Hethites, Perizzites, Rephaim, 21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites."

3 Then Abram fell facedown and God spoke with him: 4 "As for me, here is my covenant with you: You will become the father of many nations. 5 Your name will no longer be Abram;  * your name will be Abraham,  * for I will make you the father of many nations.  *6 I will make you extremely fruitful and will make nations and kings come from you. 7 I will confirm my covenant that is between me and you and your future offspring throughout their generations. It is a permanent covenant  * to be your God and the God of your offspring after you.  *8 And to you and your future offspring  *,* I will give the land where you are residing — all the land of Canaan — as a permanent possession,  * and I will be their God."

9 God also said to Abraham, "As for you, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations are to keep my covenant. 10 This is my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you, which you are to keep: Every one of your males must be circumcised. 11 You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskin to serve as a sign of the covenant between me and you.  *,*

5 In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaim  * in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham,  * the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,

5 Now if you will carefully listen to me and keep my covenant,  * you will be my own possession  * out of all the peoples, although the whole earth is mine,

31 I will set your borders from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea,  * and from the wilderness to the Euphrates River.  * For I will place the inhabitants of the land under your control, and you will drive them out ahead of you.  *32 You must not make a covenant  * with them or their gods.

Covenant Obligations

10 And the Lord responded, "Look, I am making a covenant. In the presence of all your people I will perform wonders that have never been done  * in the whole earth or in any nation. All the people you live among will see the Lord’s work, for what I am doing with you is awe-inspiring.  *

28 Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did not eat food or drink water. He wrote the Ten Commandments,  * the words of the covenant, on the tablets.

28 Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did not eat food or drink water. He wrote the Ten Commandments,  * the words of the covenant, on the tablets.

13 He declared his covenant  * to you. He commanded you to follow the Ten Commandments,  * which he wrote on two stone tablets.  *

9 Know that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps his gracious covenant loyalty for a thousand generations with those who love him and keep his commands.  *

14 When the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carried the ark of the covenant  * ahead of the people. 15 Now the Jordan overflows its banks throughout the harvest season.  * But as soon as the priests carrying the ark reached the Jordan, their feet touched the water at its edge 16 and the water flowing downstream stood still, rising up in a mass that extended as far as  * Adam, a city next to Zarethan. The water flowing downstream into the Sea of the Arabah  *  — the Dead Sea — was completely cut off, and the people crossed opposite Jericho. 17 The priests carrying the ark of the Lord’s covenant stood firmly on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan,  * while all Israel crossed on dry ground until the entire nation had finished crossing the Jordan.

Jehoiada’s Reforms

17 Then  * Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord, the king, and the people that they would be the Lord’s people  * and another covenant between the king and the people.  *,*

3 Next, the king stood by the pillar  *,* and made a covenant  * in the Lord’s presence to follow the Lord and to keep his commands, his decrees, and his statutes with all his heart and with all his soul  * in order to carry out the words of this covenant that were written in this book; all the people agreed to  * the covenant.  *

6 So King Joram marched out from Samaria at that time and mobilized all Israel. 7 Then he sent a message to King Jehoshaphat  * of Judah: "The king of Moab has rebelled against me.  * Will you go with me to fight against Moab? "

Jehoshaphat said, "I will go. I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses."  *

16 Then Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David,  * saying, "May the Lord hold David’s enemies accountable."  *,*17 Jonathan once again swore to David  * in his love for him, because he loved him as he loved himself.  *

10 The Lord spoke to Moses, 11 "Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the Israelites because he was zealous among them with my zeal,  *,* so that I did not destroy the Israelites in my zeal. 12 Therefore declare: I grant him my covenant of peace.  *13 It will be a covenant of perpetual priesthood for him and his future descendants,  * because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the Israelites."

89 When Moses entered the tent of meeting to speak with the Lord, he heard the voice speaking to him  * from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim.  * He spoke to him that way.

Aaron’s Staff Chosen

1 The Lord instructed Moses, 2 "Speak to the Israelites and take one staff from them for each ancestral tribe,  * twelve staffs from all the leaders of their tribes.  * Write each man’s name on his staff. 3 Write Aaron’s name on Levi’s staff, because there is to be one staff for the head of each tribe. 4 Then place them in the tent of meeting in front of the testimony where I meet with you. 5 The staff of the man I choose will sprout, and I will rid myself of the Israelites’ complaints that they have been making about you."

6 So Moses spoke to the Israelites, and each of their leaders gave him a staff, one for each of the leaders of their tribes, twelve staffs in all. Aaron’s staff was among them.  *7 Moses placed the staffs before the Lord in the tent of the testimony.

8 The next day Moses entered the tent of the testimony and saw that Aaron’s staff, representing the house of Levi, had sprouted, formed buds, blossomed, and produced almonds! 9 Moses then brought out all the staffs from the Lord’s presence to all the Israelites. They saw them, and each man took his own staff. 10 The Lord told Moses, "Put Aaron’s staff back in front of the testimony to be kept as a sign  * for the rebels, so that you may put an end to their complaints before me, or else they will die."  *11 So Moses did as the Lord commanded him.

Ehud

12 The Israelites again did what was evil in the Lord’s sight. He gave King Eglon of Moab  * power over Israel, because they had done what was evil in the Lord’s sight. 13 After Eglon convinced the Ammonites and the Amalekites to join forces with him, he attacked and defeated Israel and took possession of the City of Palms.  *,*

The New Covenant

31 "Look, the days are coming"  *  — this is the Lord’s declaration — "when I will make a new covenant  * with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. 32 This one will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt — my covenant that they broke even though I am their master"  *,*  — the Lord’s declaration. 33 "Instead, this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days" — the Lord’s declaration. "I will put my teaching within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 34 No longer will one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’  * for they will all know me, from the least to the greatest of them"  *  — this is the Lord’s declaration. "For I will forgive their iniquity  * and never again remember their sin.

20 "This is what the Lord says: If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night so that day and night cease to come at their regular time,  *21 then also my covenant with my servant David  * may be broken. If that could happen, then he would not have a son reigning on his throne and the Levitical priests would not be my ministers.  *

15 Therefore, he is the mediator  * of a new covenant,  *,* so that those who are called might receive the promise  * of the eternal inheritance, because a death has taken place for redemption from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.  *

15 Therefore, he is the mediator  * of a new covenant,  *,* so that those who are called might receive the promise  * of the eternal inheritance, because a death has taken place for redemption from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.  *

6 But Jesus has now obtained a superior ministry, and to that degree he is the mediator  * of a better covenant,  * which has been established on better promises.  *

Benediction and Farewell

20 Now may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus — the great Shepherd of the sheep  *  — through the blood of the everlasting covenant,  *21 equip  * you with everything good to do his will, working in us what is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever.  *,* Amen.

6 He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant,  * not of the letter,  * but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

24 These things are being taken figuratively, for the women represent two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai  * and bears children into slavery — this is Hagar.  *25 Now Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia  * and corresponds to the present Jerusalem,  * for she is in slavery with her children. 26 But the Jerusalem above  * is free, and she is our mother.

17 But from eternity to eternity

the  Lord’s faithful love is toward those who fear him,

and his righteousness toward the grandchildren  *

18 of those who keep his covenant,

who remember to observe his precepts.  *

21 "As for me, this is my covenant with them,"  * says the Lord: "My Spirit who is on you, and my words that I have put in your mouth,  * will not depart from your mouth, or from the mouths of your children, or from the mouths of your children’s children, from now on and forever," says the Lord.

25 " ‘I will make a covenant of peace  * with them and eliminate dangerous creatures  * from the land, so that they may live securely  * in the wilderness and sleep in the forest.

8 The Lord is the one who will go before you.  * He will be with you; he will not leave you or abandon you.  * Do not be afraid or discouraged."

27 He will make a firm covenant  *

with many for one week,

but in the middle of the week

he will put a stop to sacrifice and offering.

And the abomination of desolation  *

will be on a wing  * of the temple  *,*

until the decreed destruction  *

is poured out on the desolator."

Kings of the South and the North

5 "The king of the South  * will grow powerful, but one of his commanders will grow more powerful and will rule a kingdom greater than his. 6 After some years they will form an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the South will go to the king of the North  * to seal the agreement. She will not retain power, and his strength will not endure. She will be given up, together with her entourage, her father,  * and the one who supported her during those times.

16 The king of the North who comes against him will do whatever he wants,  * and no one can oppose him. He will establish himself in the beautiful land  *,* with total destruction in his hand. 17 He will resolve  * to come with the force of his whole kingdom and will reach an agreement with him.  * He will give him a daughter in marriage  * to destroy it,  * but she will not stand with him or support him.

1 I have made a covenant with my eyes.  *

How then could I look at a young woman?  *,*

16 It will rescue you from a forbidden woman,  *

from a wayward woman with her flattering talk,  *

17 who abandons the companion of her youth  *

and forgets the covenant of her God;