Genesis 6:18 “But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—…”

Genesis 6:18

But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.

World English Bible

But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

American Standard Version

But I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.

Geneva Bible 1599

But with thee will I establish my couenant, and thou shalt goe into the Arke, thou, and thy sonnes, and thy wife, and thy sonnes wiues with thee.

Darby Translation

But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt go into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.

Young's Literal Translation

'And I have established My covenant with thee, and thou hast come in unto the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy son's wives with thee;

Bible in Basic English

But with you I will make an agreement; and you will come into the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.

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Cross references

“establish”

Genesis 17:7 Genesis 17:4 Genesis 17:21 Genesis 9:9 Genesis 9:11

Genesis 17:7 · BSB

I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

Genesis 17:4 · BSB

“As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.

Genesis 17:21 · BSB

But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.”

Genesis 9:9 · BSB

“Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,

Genesis 9:11 · BSB

And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

“come”

Hebrews 11:7 Genesis 7:7 Genesis 7:13 Isaiah 26:20 Genesis 7:1 1 Peter 3:20

Hebrews 11:7 · BSB

By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

Genesis 7:7 · BSB

And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

Genesis 7:13 · BSB

On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—

Isaiah 26:20 · BSB

Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.

Genesis 7:1 · BSB

Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.

1 Peter 3:20 · BSB

who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

17And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.

19And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you.

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