Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on Genesis 9:10 widens the covenant after the Flood to include every creature, without exception. With every living soul that is with you, of birds, and of cattle, and of every beast of the earth that is with you, of all that go forth from the ark, of every beast of the earth.
Read the list carefully. Birds. Cattle. Wild beasts. Every creature that went out of the ark. The covenant is not just between the Holy One and Noah, or between the Holy One and Noah's children. It is between the Holy One and the entire breathing population of the earth.
This is radical. In most ancient legal systems, covenants were between kings and subjects. Torah pushes the circle out to animals. The squirrel on your lawn is inside this covenant. The sparrow. The ox.
Jewish ethics has always carried this verse forward. Tza'ar ba'alei chayim, the prohibition against causing animals needless suffering, draws its deepest roots here. Animals are not property without standing. They are covenant partners.
The takeaway the Maggid lifts from this verse: if God signs a treaty that includes every living thing, we are not permitted to draw a smaller circle. A Jew walks through the world remembering that every creature is a co-signer of the post-Flood promise.