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GENESIS – LESSON FIVE
I. THE FLOOD (Genesis 7-
A. God’s commands to Noah seven days before the flood (7:1-
1. Come into the ark.
2. Take of clean beasts 7 pairs – male and female
3. Take of unclean animals 2 pairs – male and female
4. Noah did all that God commanded him to do .
B. Flood prevails on Earth (7:10-
1. Rain for forty days and nights begins on 17th. day of 2nd. month of Noah’s 600th. year.
2. Fountains of deep broken up – windows of heaven opened.
3. Ark lifted up above earth with eight souls and all within which have the breath of life.
4. All mountains under all of heaven were covered with water.
5. All flesh died in whom was the breath of life
6. Only Noah left and those with him in the ark.
7. Waters of flood prevailed for 150 days.
C. Flood waters recede after 150 days (8:1-
1. God makes wind to pass over earth – waters subside.
2. God stops sources of flood.
3. Ark rests on mountains of Ararat on 17th. day of 7th. month..
4. Tops of mountains seen on 1st day of 10th. month.
5. After 40 days, Noah sends Raven and dove from the ark.
6. Noah removes covering on 1st. day of 1st. month of Noah’s 601st. year – sees dry land.
7. The earth is dry on 27th. day of 2nd. month of Noah’s 601st. year.
D. Action taken immediately after the flood (8:15-
1. God’s command to Noah regarding his family and animals – multiply upon the earth.
2. Noah builds altar and offers burnt offerings acceptable to God.
3. God vows to not curse ground the same way He did when he sent the flood upon the earth.
QUESTIONS:
1. God commanded Noah to “go” into the ark with all his house because Noah had been righteous in his generation. (T) (F)
2. God commanded Noah to take only 2 pairs of every kind of animal into the ark. (T) (F)
3. Why did God command Noah to bring pairs of animals into the ark?
4. What were the water sources for the flood?
5. Who shut Noah and his family up in the ark?
6. What is significant about the waters prevailing 15 cubits upward?
7. How long did the waters of the flood prevail upon the earth?
8. What is significant about “only Noah is left and those with him” when you think about God’s judgment?
9. In what sense does God “remember” Noah and all that is with him in the ark?
10. How does God make the flood waters abate?
11. Where on earth did the ark rest as the flood waters decreased?
12. Why did the raven not come back to the ark, while the dove did at first?
13. How did Noah know at first that the waters were abated from the earth? When did he know for sure?
14. How long was Noah in the ark?
15. What Biblical facts show that the flood was a “universal” flood?
16. Why might someone believe that the flood was only “local”?
17. What did God command Noah to do upon his leaving the ark?
18. Why do you think Noah offered burnt offerings after leaving the ark?
19. Was Noah’s sacrifice acceptable to God?
20. What did Jehovah say to His own heart?
21. Did God say that the earth would remain forever?
GENESIS – LESSON SIX
I. IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS AND OCCURRENCES FOLLOWING
THE FLOOD (9:1-
A. God blesses and instructs Noah concerning life following the flood (9:1-
1. God instructs Noah and his sons to be fruitful, multiply and replenish the earth.
2. God decrees that all the animals on land and sea are in Noah’s control – He is the object of their fear.
3. Animals are given for food just as the green herb has been given for food in the past.
4. Blood shall not be eaten – it is the life of the flesh.
5. Man or beast that sheds man’s blood shall die because man is made in the image of God.
B. God makes an everlasting covenant with Noah, his descendants and the animals of the earth-
1. God ‘s promise: All flesh shall not be cut off by the waters of the flood – no flood shall again destroy the earth.
2. Token of the covenant: “bow in the cloud”
C. Noah’s drunkenness and the curse upon Canaan (9:18-
1. Ham is the father of Canaan
2. Noah drinks wine from his vineyard and through drunkenness becomes uncovered.
3. Ham, the father of Canaan, gazes upon Noah’s nakedness and takes delight in telling his brothers.
4. Shem and Japheth cover their father’s nakedness while looking away – Noah blesses them.
5. Noah proclaims curse upon Canaan as being “a servant of servants” due to what his younger son, Ham, had done.
a. Canaan became subject to Shem through Israel (cf. Joshua 9:23, I Kings 9:20,21).
b. Later, Phoenicians, Carthaginians and Egyptians were subject to the descendants of Japheth: Persians,
Macedonians and Romans
D. Noah’s death (9:28-
1. Lived 350 years after the flood.
2. Died at the age of 950 years.
QUESTIONS:
1. Through whom do all men today trace their ancestry back to Adam?
2. How does God’s instructions to Noah help us today in understanding man’s relationship with the animals?
3. Why does God forbid man to eat blood?
4. Does God approve today of man putting people to death who murder their fellow man? (Explain your answer.)
5. To whom does God’s covenant to not destroy flesh or earth with a flood include?
6. How does this covenant give us another reason for believing that the flood was “universal” and not a “local” flood?
7. What is “my bow in the cloud”?
8. What implications about drinking wine do you conclude from Noah’s experience?
9. Why is Canaan cursed when Ham, his father, looked upon Noah’s nakedness?
10. Describe the curse upon Canaan?
11. How long did Noah live after the flood?
12. Noah died before Abraham was born. (T) (F)