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When the rainbow appears in the clouds, Genesis 9 says it is a reminder for whom?

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The answer

God. "When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant" (Genesis 9:16) — the speaker is God, and the seeing and remembering are God's.

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Why it’s interesting

Retelling turned the rainbow into a reminder for people looking up; the text points it the other way. The Hebrew word here, qeshet, is also the ordinary word for an archer's bow.

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