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1. God is ready to begin again. He blesses Noah and his sons by speaking over them. What does this tell you about the words we speak?
In what ways can you bless someone through your speech?
What does God tell Noah and his sons in verse 1?
Where have we heard these “instructions” before?
What does this tell you about God and about His word?
2. What does verse 2 say about man’s relationship with the rest of creation?
What does it mean to you that the animals will fear and dread man?
How is this command similar and
different from the one given to Adam in
In other words, how did the relationship between man and the rest of creation change when Adam and Eve disobeyed God?
According to this verse, exactly what has been given into man’s hands?
What meaning does this have for us today? What is our responsibility toward animals?
3. What does God tell Noah in verse 3?
What does it mean to you that God gave them everything for food?
Compare this verse to
How do you account for these differences? (Again, look at God’s words at the beginning of verse 2.)
Some people believe that eating
meat is wrong in God’s eyes because of His words to Adam and Eve in
4. Because God now gave man animals as food, a new commandment has been added. What is that commandment? (See verse 4.)
What does it mean to you that we are not to eat meat with its lifeblood still in it?
To help us understand better
what the LORD means when He talks about “lifeblood”, let’s look at
According to these verses in Leviticus, why has blood been given to man?
God is very clear. The life of
a creature is in its blood. Now read
What do these verses on lifeblood and the shedding of blood have to do with Jesus Christ?
Why did Jesus have to die on the cross and shed His blood?
5. What does God mean when He says He will demand an accounting for someone’s lifeblood?
Verse 5 adds that God will
demand an accounting from every animal. What does this mean to you? (See
God says He will demand the same for each man. What does this mean to you?
Remember what happened when Cain slew Abel. How did God know Cain had killed his brother?
6. Read verse 6. God makes His point very clear. What is to happen to someone who sheds another person’s blood?
In the last part of this verse, God explains why He demands a life for a life. Why does He?
What implication does this hold for us?
7. God ends this section by once again encouraging Noah and repeating His desire for Noah and his family. What does God tell him?
8. In verses 8-10, God says He will establish His covenant with Noah and his descendants. What is a covenant?
How is a covenant different from a contract?
What does it mean to you that this is God’s covenant that He makes with us?
God goes even further. Who or what else is included in this covenant?
Why do you believe God made this covenant with every living creature on the earth?
What does it mean to you that birds, cattle, dogs, etc. have a covenant with God?
9. Beginning in verse 11, God begins to state the parts of this covenant. What is the first part of this covenant?
Who is responsible for keeping this part of the covenant?
The second part of the covenant
is actually stated in
10. In verse 12, God tells us that He will give us a sign of this covenant. Why do you believe God gave us a sign?
Marriage is a covenant. What is the sign of that covenant? What is the purpose of that sign?
Christ tells us that He has made a new covenant with us. What is the sign of our new covenant with Jesus?
What is the sign of God’s covenant with Noah and with all of creation?
When was the last time you stopped to look at a rainbow?
11. In verse 14, God tells us that He is the One Who brings the clouds over the earth. What do you believe this means?
Then in verse 15, God tells us that when His rainbow appears, He will remember His covenant. What do you think God means when He says He will remember? Do you think God would forget?
12. Verse 16 tells us that this covenant with Noah is an everlasting covenant. What is an everlasting covenant?
What have you learned from these verses about God and His covenants? 13. Once again God gives the names of those who survived the flood. Who were they?
Why do you believe God mentions their names once again?
What does verse 19 mean to you?
Have you ever given much thought to the truth that you are a descendant of one of Noah’s sons?
14. Now begins another interesting story concerning Noah. Read verse 20 very carefully. If possible, read different translations. What does it say about Noah?
Why is it significant that Noah might have been the first person to plant a vineyard?
Keeping this in mind, how do you explain Noah’s getting drunk in verse 21?
Noah was drunk, but he was not a drunkard. Please explain.
What happened as a result of Noah’s getting drunk?
15. We do not need to go into great detail here, but we should understand that to see someone uncovered was a shameful act. God later instructs His priests not to allow anyone to see their nakedness.
What happens as Noah lay drunk and naked in his tent?
What did Ham do then?
16. What was so wrong with Ham’s telling his brothers that he saw their father’s nakedness?
What does this tell you about Ham’s character? Why does verse 22 read, “Ham, the father of Canaan…”? In other words, why does it mention Ham’s son Canaan?
Is it possible that the son is like the father? Please explain.
17. What did Shem and Japheth do?
What do their actions tell us about these two sons?
What does it mean to you to cover someone’s nakedness?
18. Next, Noah does something that has great ramifications. What does he do when he finds out what Ham had done?
Noah is prophesying at this point. What does it mean to you when someone is prophesying?
What does Noah say concerning Canaan?
What does Noah say concerning Shem?
What does Noah say concerning Japheth?
19. What can you find out about the descendants of Canaan?
Did they become the lowest of slaves to their brothers’ descendants?
20.What do these verses teach us about honoring or dishonoring our parents?
What can they each us about blessing or cursing our children?
21. What do you think it would have been like to live for 950 years?
What are some of the things Noah saw during the last 600 years of his life? |