Genesis 9:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

i.e. My promise, for the beasts included in this covenant, Genesis 9:10, are not capable of a covenant properly so called. And the word covenant is oft used for a simple promise, as we shall see hereafter. With your seed, i.e. your posterity, as that word is frequently taken, as Genesis 12:7 Exodus 28:43, &c.

Genesis 9:9

9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;