Holy Scripture

Genesis 9:16

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“What are the storehouses of the winds? What are the treasuries of the snow? Who, as Scripture hath said, hath begotten the drops of dew? Out of Whose womb came the ice? and Who bindeth the waters in the clouds, and, fixing part in the clouds (O marvel!) held by His Word though its nature is to flow, poureth out the re…”
Gregory of Nazianzus, 4th c. — THEOLOGICAL ORATIONS 28.28

Source: Septuagint

Original

16And my bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look to remember the everlasting covenant between me and the earth, and between every living soul in all flesh, which is upon the earth.

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14And it shall be when I gather clouds upon the earth, that my bow shall be seen in the cloud.

15And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you, and between every living soul in all flesh, and there shall no longer be water for a deluge, so as to blot out all flesh.

— Genesis 9:16 —

17And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant, which I have made between me and all flesh, which is upon the earth.

18Now the sons of Noah which came out of the ark, were Shem, Ham, Japheth. And Ham was father of Canaan.

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