Quotes about Covenant

The marriage covenant should be strong enough to endure pressure from within and from without

The name is considered so sacred that when the scribes would record YHVH (Yahweh) in the scriptures, they would wash, write the name, then wash themselves again! The name was considered so sacred that in the synagogues in Christ's time, when the speaker was to read the sacred name of God, he replaced it with the name Adonai. This would become the covenant name of God to the Hebrew nation.

The exodus, in fact, is really all about getting to Mount Sinai, and how the events there prepare the Israelites for their ultimate destiny—a kingdom in a land of their own.

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.

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.

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

You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;

Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.

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—

So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

Then God said to Noah,