8 Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, 9 "Now behold, I Myself am establishing My covenant with you, and with your *descendants after you; 10 and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, every animal of the earth. 11 I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be eliminated by the waters of a flood, nor shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth." 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 future generations; 13 I have set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall *serve as a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.

11 I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be eliminated by the waters of a flood, nor shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth."

13 I have set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall *serve as a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.

18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying,

"To your *descendants I have given this land,

From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates:

19 the land of the Kenite, the Kenizzite, the Kadmonite, 20 the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Rephaim, 21 the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Girgashite, and the Jebusite."

3 Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying,

4 "As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you,

And you will be the father of a multitude of nations.

5 "No longer shall you be named *Abram,

But your name shall be *Abraham;

For I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.

6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you. 7 I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your *descendants after you throughout their generations as an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your *descendants after you. 8 And I will give to you and to your *descendants after you the land where you live as a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God."

9 God said further to Abraham, "Now as for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your *descendants after you throughout their generations. 10 This is My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your *descendants after you: every male among you shall be circumcised. 11 And you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be the sign of the covenant between Me and you.

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

5 Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My *own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine;

31 I will set your boundary from the *Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates River; for I will hand over the inhabitants of the land to you, and you will drive them out from you. 32 You shall *make no covenant with them or with their gods.

10 Then *God said, "Behold, I am going to make a covenant. Before all your people I will perform miracles which have not been *produced in all the earth nor among any of the nations; and all the people *among whom you live will see the working of the Lord, for it is a fearful thing that I am going to perform with you.

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

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

13 So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, that is, the Ten *Commandments; and He wrote them on two tablets of stone.

9 Know therefore that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps *His covenant and *His faithfulness to a thousand generations for those who love Him and keep His commandments;

14 So when the people set out from their tents to cross the Jordan, with the priests carrying the ark of the covenant before the people, 15 and when those who were carrying the ark came up to the Jordan and the feet of the priests carrying the ark *stepped down into the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the days of harvest), 16 then the waters which were *flowing down from above stood and rose up in one heap, a great distance away at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those which were *flowing down toward the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. So the people crossed opposite Jericho. 17 And the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan while all Israel crossed on dry ground, until all the nation had finished crossing the Jordan.

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

3 And the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep His commandments, His provisions, and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to carry out the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people *entered into the covenant.

6 So King Jehoram left Samaria for battle*at that time and mustered all Israel. 7 Then he went and sent word to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, "The king of Moab has broken away from me. Will you go with me to fight against Moab?" And he said, "I will go up. *Consider me yours, my people as your people, my horses as your horses."

16 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, "May the Lord demand it from the hands of David’s enemies." 17 And Jonathan made David vow again because of his love for him, because he loved him as he loved his own life.

10 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 11 "Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has averted My wrath from the sons of Israel in that he was *jealous with My *jealousy among them, so that I did not destroy the sons of Israel in My *jealousy. 12 Therefore say, ‘Behold, I am giving him My covenant of peace; 13 and it shall be for him and for his *descendants after him, a covenant of a permanent priesthood, because he was *jealous for his God and made atonement for the sons of Israel.’ "

89 Now when Moses entered the tent of meeting to speak with Him, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the *atoning cover that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two *cherubim; so He spoke to him.

1 *Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 "Speak to the sons of Israel, and obtain from them a staff for each father’s household: twelve staffs, from all their leaders for their fathers’ households. You shall write each man’s name on his staff, 3 and write Aaron’s name on the staff of Levi; for there is to be one staff for the head of each of their fathers’ households. 4 You shall then leave them in the tent of meeting in front of the testimony, where I meet with you. 5 And it will come about that the staff of the man whom I choose will sprout. So I will relieve Myself of the grumblings of the sons of Israel, who are grumbling against you." 6 So Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, and all their leaders gave him a staff, one for each leader, for their fathers’ households, twelve staffs in all, with the staff of Aaron among their staffs. 7 Then Moses left the staffs before the Lord in the tent of the testimony.

8 Now on the next day Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and behold, Aaron’s staff for the house of Levi had sprouted and produced buds and bloomed with blossoms, and it yielded ripe almonds. 9 Moses then brought out all the staffs from the presence of the Lord to all the sons of Israel; and they looked, and each man took his staff. 10 But the Lord said to Moses, "Put the staff of Aaron back in front of the testimony *to be kept as a sign against the *rebels, so that you may put an end to their grumblings against Me and they do not die." 11 Moses did so; just as the Lord had commanded him, so he did.

12 Now the sons of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord. So the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the Lord. 13 And he gathered to himself the sons of Ammon and Amalek; and he went and *defeated Israel, and they took possession of the city of the palm trees.

31 "Behold, days are coming," declares the Lord, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant which I made with their fathers on the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them," declares the Lord. 33 "For this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days," declares the Lord: "I will put My law within them and write it on their heart; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34 They will not teach again, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them," declares the Lord, "for I will forgive their wrongdoing, and their sin I will no longer remember."

20 "This is what the Lord says: ‘If you can break My covenant for the day and My covenant for the night, so that day and night do not occur at their proper time, 21 then My covenant with David My servant may also be broken, so that he will not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levitical priests, My ministers.

15 For this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has taken place for the redemption of the violations that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

15 For this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has taken place for the redemption of the violations that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

6 But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, to the extent that He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.

20 Now may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep *through the blood of the eternal covenant, that is, Jesus our Lord, 21 equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

6 who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

24 *This is speaking allegorically, for these women are two covenants: one coming from Mount Sinai giving birth to children *who are to be slaves; *she is Hagar. 25 Now this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is enslaved with her children. 26 But the Jerusalem above is free; *she is our mother.

17 But the *mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting for those who *fear Him,

And His justice to the children’s children,

18 To those who keep His covenant

And remember His precepts, so as to do them.

21 "As for Me, this is My covenant with them," says the Lord: "My Spirit who is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your *offspring, nor from the mouth of your *offspring’s offspring," says the Lord, "from now and forever."

25 "And I will make a covenant of peace with them and eliminate harmful animals from the land, so that they may live securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.

8 And the Lord is the One who is going ahead of you; He will be with you. He will not desert you or abandon you. Do not fear and do not be dismayed."

27 And he will confirm a covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of *abominations will come the one who *makes desolate, until a complete destruction, one that is *decreed, gushes forth on the one who *makes desolate."

5 "Then the king of the South will grow strong, *along with one of his princes *who will gain ascendancy over him and rule; his domain will be a great realm indeed.6 And after some years they will form an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the South will come to the king of the North to reach an agreement. But she will not keep her *position of power, nor will he remain with his *power, but she will be given up, along with those who brought her in and the one who fathered her as well as he who supported her in those times.

16 But he who comes against him will do as he pleases, and no one will be able to withstand him; he will also stay for a time in the *Beautiful Land, with destruction in his hand. 17 And he will set his *mind on coming with the power of his entire kingdom, *bringing with him *a proposal of peace which he will put into effect; he will also give him the daughter of women to ruin it. But she will not take a stand for him or be *on his side.

1 "I have made a covenant with my eyes;

How then could I look at a virgin?

16 To rescue you from the strange woman,

From the foreign woman who flatters with her words,

17 Who leaves the companion of her youth

And forgets the covenant of her God;