Chiasm
Genesis 9:12–17
Genesis 9:12–173 matched frames1 pivot
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 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:
- B 13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
- C 14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
- D 15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
- C' 16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it,
- C 14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
- B' 16 that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
- B 13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
- A' 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.