OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 6:18

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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.

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Verse 18. My covenant, that thou shalt be saved, amid the general ruin. This is the second covenant of God with men: the first was with Adam, the third with Abraham, when circumcision was instituted, and the last with Moses. Exodus 19. All others were only ratifications of these; and even these were only figures of that which our Saviour entered into with men, when he undertook to make satisfaction for them to his Father. Calmet.

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