Bible Verses About Covenant - Discover the Promises of God's Covenant
The concept of covenant is central to the Bible, revealing God's promise of salvation and His enduring relationship with His people. From the Abrahamic and Mosaic covenants to the New Covenant through Jesus Christ, the Scriptures are rich with promises of God's faithfulness and unconditional love towards His people. Explore these powerful verses on covenant and find inspiration and guidance on how to live a fulfilling life in the light of God's promises.
Covenant in the Bible
138 Bible Scriptures about Covenant
Genesis, Chapter: 6, verse: 18
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.
Read the chapterGenesis, Chapter: 9, verse: 9
And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
Read the chapterGenesis, Chapter: 9, verse: 12
And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
Read the chapterGenesis, Chapter: 9, verse: 17
And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
Read the chapterGenesis, Chapter: 15, verse: 5
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
Read the chapterGenesis, Chapter: 15, verse: 17
And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
Read the chapterGenesis, Chapter: 17, verse: 2
And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.
Read the chapterGenesis, Chapter: 17, verse: 9
And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
Read the chapterGenesis, Chapter: 17, verse: 10
This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.
Read the chapterGenesis, Chapter: 17, verse: 11
And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
Read the chapterGenesis, Chapter: 17, verse: 13
He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
Read the chapterGenesis, Chapter: 17, verse: 14
And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
Read the chapterGenesis, Chapter: 17, verse: 21
But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
Read the chapterGenesis, Chapter: 17, verse: 24
And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Read the chapterGenesis, Chapter: 17, verse: 25
And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Read the chapterGenesis, Chapter: 17, verse: 27
And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.
Read the chapterGenesis, Chapter: 21, verse: 13
And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
Read the chapterGenesis, Chapter: 21, verse: 27
And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
Read the chapterGenesis, Chapter: 21, verse: 31
Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them.
Read the chapterGenesis, Chapter: 21, verse: 32
Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
Read the chapterGenesis, Chapter: 31, verse: 44
Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
Read the chapterGenesis, Chapter: 31, verse: 52
This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
Read the chapterGenesis, Chapter: 34, verse: 15
But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;
Read the chapterGenesis, Chapter: 34, verse: 22
Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.
Read the chapterExodus, Chapter: 4, verse: 25
Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
Read the chapterExodus, Chapter: 12, verse: 24
And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.
Read the chapterExodus, Chapter: 23, verse: 32
Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
Read the chapterExodus, Chapter: 34, verse: 12
Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:
Read the chapterExodus, Chapter: 34, verse: 27
And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
Read the chapterLeviticus, Chapter: 2, verse: 13
And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
Read the chapterLeviticus, Chapter: 12, verse: 3
And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
Read the chapterLeviticus, Chapter: 26, verse: 15
And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
Read the chapterNumbers, Chapter: 18, verse: 19
All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
Read the chapterNumbers, Chapter: 25, verse: 13
And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.
Read the chapterDeuteronomy, Chapter: 4, verse: 13
And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
Read the chapterDeuteronomy, Chapter: 5, verse: 2
The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
Read the chapterDeuteronomy, Chapter: 5, verse: 3
The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
Read the chapterDeuteronomy, Chapter: 9, verse: 11
And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
Read the chapterDeuteronomy, Chapter: 29, verse: 1
These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
Read the chapterDeuteronomy, Chapter: 29, verse: 9
Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
Read the chapterDeuteronomy, Chapter: 29, verse: 12
That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:
Read the chapterDeuteronomy, Chapter: 29, verse: 14
Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
Read the chapterDeuteronomy, Chapter: 29, verse: 25
Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:
Read the chapterJoshua, Chapter: 5, verse: 5
Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised.
Read the chapterJoshua, Chapter: 22, verse: 28
Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say again, Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between us and you.
Read the chapterJoshua, Chapter: 23, verse: 8
But cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day.
Read the chapterJoshua, Chapter: 24, verse: 3
And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.
Read the chapterJoshua, Chapter: 24, verse: 25
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
Read the chapter1 Samuel, Chapter: 11, verse: 1
Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabeshgilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee.
Read the chapter1 Samuel, Chapter: 20, verse: 16
So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let the LORD even require it at the hand of David's enemies.
Read the chapter1 Samuel, Chapter: 23, verse: 18
And they two made a covenant before the LORD: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.
Read the chapter1 Kings, Chapter: 6, verse: 19
And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
Read the chapter1 Kings, Chapter: 8, verse: 9
There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
Read the chapter1 Kings, Chapter: 8, verse: 19
Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.
Read the chapter1 Kings, Chapter: 8, verse: 21
And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
Read the chapter1 Kings, Chapter: 20, verse: 34
And Benhadad said unto him, The cities, which my father took from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away.
Read the chapter2 Kings, Chapter: 11, verse: 4
And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king's son.
Read the chapter2 Kings, Chapter: 11, verse: 17
And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD'S people; between the king also and the people.
Read the chapter1 Chronicles, Chapter: 16, verse: 15
Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word which he commanded to a thousand generations;
Read the chapter1 Chronicles, Chapter: 16, verse: 16
Even of the covenant which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;
Read the chapter1 Chronicles, Chapter: 16, verse: 17
And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
Read the chapter1 Chronicles, Chapter: 17, verse: 12
He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever.
Read the chapter2 Chronicles, Chapter: 5, verse: 10
There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
Read the chapter2 Chronicles, Chapter: 13, verse: 5
Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
Read the chapter2 Chronicles, Chapter: 16, verse: 3
There is a league between me and thee, as there was between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
Read the chapter2 Chronicles, Chapter: 23, verse: 1
And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.
Read the chapter2 Chronicles, Chapter: 23, verse: 3
And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, as the LORD hath said of the sons of David.
Read the chapter2 Chronicles, Chapter: 23, verse: 16
And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD'S people.
Read the chapter2 Chronicles, Chapter: 29, verse: 10
Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
Read the chapter2 Chronicles, Chapter: 34, verse: 31
And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.
Read the chapter2 Chronicles, Chapter: 34, verse: 32
And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
Read the chapterNehemiah, Chapter: 9, verse: 38
And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.
Read the chapterNehemiah, Chapter: 13, verse: 29
Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.
Read the chapterEsther, Chapter: 9, verse: 21
To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
Read the chapterJob, Chapter: 31, verse: 1
I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
Read the chapterJob, Chapter: 41, verse: 4
Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
Read the chapterPsalm, Chapter: 55, verse: 20
He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.
Read the chapterPsalm, Chapter: 74, verse: 20
Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
Read the chapterPsalm, Chapter: 89, verse: 3
I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
Read the chapterPsalm, Chapter: 89, verse: 39
Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
Read the chapterPsalm, Chapter: 103, verse: 18
To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
Read the chapterPsalm, Chapter: 105, verse: 9
Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;
Read the chapterProverbs, Chapter: 2, verse: 17
Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
Read the chapterIsaiah, Chapter: 33, verse: 20
Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
Read the chapterIsaiah, Chapter: 57, verse: 8
Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.
Read the chapterIsaiah, Chapter: 66, verse: 21
And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the LORD.
Read the chapterJeremiah, Chapter: 11, verse: 2
Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
Read the chapterJeremiah, Chapter: 11, verse: 3
And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,
Read the chapterJeremiah, Chapter: 11, verse: 4
Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:
Read the chapterJeremiah, Chapter: 11, verse: 6
Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.
Read the chapterJeremiah, Chapter: 11, verse: 10
They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
Read the chapterJeremiah, Chapter: 14, verse: 21
Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.
Read the chapterJeremiah, Chapter: 30, verse: 22
And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Read the chapterJeremiah, Chapter: 31, verse: 31
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
Read the chapterJeremiah, Chapter: 31, verse: 32
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
Read the chapterJeremiah, Chapter: 31, verse: 36
If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
Read the chapterJeremiah, Chapter: 33, verse: 20
Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
Read the chapterJeremiah, Chapter: 33, verse: 21
Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
Read the chapterJeremiah, Chapter: 34, verse: 10
Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.
Read the chapterJeremiah, Chapter: 34, verse: 13
Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,
Read the chapterJeremiah, Chapter: 34, verse: 15
And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:
Read the chapterJeremiah, Chapter: 34, verse: 18
And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof,
Read the chapterJeremiah, Chapter: 50, verse: 5
They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
Read the chapterEzekiel, Chapter: 11, verse: 20
That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
Read the chapterEzekiel, Chapter: 14, verse: 11
That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.
Read the chapterEzekiel, Chapter: 16, verse: 8
Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.
Read the chapterEzekiel, Chapter: 16, verse: 60
Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
Read the chapterEzekiel, Chapter: 16, verse: 61
Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.
Read the chapterEzekiel, Chapter: 17, verse: 13
And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land:
Read the chapterEzekiel, Chapter: 17, verse: 15
But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?
Read the chapterEzekiel, Chapter: 20, verse: 37
And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:
Read the chapterEzekiel, Chapter: 37, verse: 26
Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
Read the chapterEzekiel, Chapter: 44, verse: 9
Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.
Read the chapterEzekiel, Chapter: 48, verse: 29
This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord GOD.
Read the chapterDaniel, Chapter: 11, verse: 30
For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.
Read the chapterHosea, Chapter: 2, verse: 18
And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
Read the chapterHosea, Chapter: 6, verse: 7
But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
Read the chapterHosea, Chapter: 12, verse: 1
Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
Read the chapterHosea, Chapter: 12, verse: 9
And I that am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.
Read the chapterActs, Chapter: 7, verse: 8
And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.
Read the chapterRomans, Chapter: 2, verse: 28
For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
Read the chapterRomans, Chapter: 4, verse: 11
And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
Read the chapterRomans, Chapter: 9, verse: 4
Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
Read the chapterRomans, Chapter: 11, verse: 24
For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
Read the chapterGalatians, Chapter: 3, verse: 15
Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.
Read the chapterGalatians, Chapter: 3, verse: 16
Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
Read the chapterGalatians, Chapter: 4, verse: 23
But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
Read the chapterGalatians, Chapter: 4, verse: 24
Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
Read the chapterHebrews, Chapter: 7, verse: 20
And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:
Read the chapterHebrews, Chapter: 7, verse: 21
(For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)
Read the chapterHebrews, Chapter: 7, verse: 22
By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
Read the chapterHebrews, Chapter: 8, verse: 7
For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
Read the chapterHebrews, Chapter: 8, verse: 8
For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
Read the chapterHebrews, Chapter: 8, verse: 9
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
Read the chapterHebrews, Chapter: 8, verse: 13
In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
Read the chapterHebrews, Chapter: 11, verse: 18
Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:
Read the chapter