Genesis 9:1
1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
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Genesis 9:2
2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Do you think animals fear and dread us today?
Mosquitos seem to have no fear. You swat at them once they still come back!
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Genesis 9:3
3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Does this mean even the unclean things were ok to eat?
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Genesis 9:4
4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
What makes the life be in the blood?
Why not the brain or heart?
What is the problem with eating it?
If it wasn't ok to eat it before, is it ok to eat it now?
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Genesis 9:5
5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
What is God saying? Will a man die if he eats aninmal blood?
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Genesis 9:6
6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
Is God establishing the death penalty for murder?
Being made in the image of God; there are other things that man does that God doesn't do. Would the death penalty apply to those things as well?
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Genesis 9:7
7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
God tells us to be fruitful and multiply. Can this be applied spiritually?
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Genesis 9:8
8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
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Genesis 9:9
9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
What is a covenant?
Is it something that can be broken?
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Genesis 9:10
10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
Why did God want to establish His covenant with the animals too?
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Genesis 9:11
11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
How secure does this make you feel?
What other ways do you think the earth could be destroyed?
Why is this covenant so important?
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Genesis 9:12
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:
Do the animals understand what is going on?
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Genesis 9:13
13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
What is this bow?
Have you ever seen this bow?
When was the last time?
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Genesis 9:14
14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
I see a lot more clouds than I do bows. Why do you think the bowisn'tf in every cloud?
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Genesis 9:15
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.
Does God need a bow to remember?
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Genesis 9:16
16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
If God does things to help Him remember things, what can we learn from this?
Who is doing the talking here? The term, "between God" seems to indicte that God isn't doing the talking.
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Genesis 9:17
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.
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Genesis 9:18
18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
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Genesis 9:19
19 These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.
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Genesis 9:20
20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
Do you think that seeds survived the flood?
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Genesis 9:21
21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Why would Noah want to become drunk?
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Genesis 9:22
22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
What do you think it means, "saw the nakedness"?
Why would he tell his brethren?
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Genesis 9:23
23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
Why did both of them do this?
What happens when we go to the doctors an they need to examine us? Is that wrong?
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Genesis 9:24
24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
Why do you think it was the younger son? Why not one of the older ones?
How old do you think he was?
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Genesis 9:25
25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
Whatever the offence was, it had serious consiquences.
Why was Canaan cursed and not Ham?
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Genesis 9:26
26 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
Why does Noah say, "Blessed be the LORD God of Shem"?
Was the LORD God of Ham?
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Genesis 9:27
27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
Why does Noah say Japeth shall dwell in the tents of Shem?
What does this indicate to you?
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Genesis 9:28
28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
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Genesis 9:29
29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
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