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From there it goes to Abraham (Genesis 17:2 and Genesis 17:4)
Gen 17:4 "Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.
Gen 17:5 No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
Gen 17:6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you.
Gen 17:7 And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.
Gen 17:8 And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God."
Gen 17:9 And God said to Abraham, "As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations.
Gen 17:10 This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.
Again the phrase my covenant with you refers to the covenant with Abraham. It is clearly different, and with different promises. However, in this case it is made with Abraham throughout his generations.
and then said to be headed to Isaac as an everlasting covenant (Genesis 17:9). There is no mention of Jacob directly in Genesis in connection with “my covenant” but the previous mentions said it would be passed down and then we have Psalm 105:8-10 which I will post here:
Psalm 105:8 He remembers His covenant forever, The word which He commanded, for a thousand generations, (9) The covenant which He made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac, (10) And confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel as an everlasting covenant
Agreed, the covenant with Abraham was passed down to Isaac and Jacob, and their generations.
Gen 17:19 God said, "No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.
Psa_105:10 which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant,
So, 1000 generations (idiomatic... that would be 40,000 years at least... so an idiom for “everlasting”) followed by “my covenant” which was made with Abraham, and then passed to Isaac, and then confirmed with Jacob and then to his offspring, as “an everlasting covenant.”
But the covenant with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and their descendants is not the same as that with Noah. The agreements bear no resemblance.
And the covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is not the same as that made with the children of Israel when they arrived at Sinai. There again we see new promises and new requirements.
You seem to take anything that says "my covenant" and consider them the same covenant, even though one was "my covenant" with Noah, and one was "my covenant" with Abraham and his descendants, with totally different promises.
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