Genesis 7-9

What I Noticed Today (Genesis 7-9)

Genesis 7

In verses 1-10, God commands Noah and his family to enter the ark in anticipation of the flood:

• God tells Noah and his family to enter the ark because they alone are righteous in this generation.
• Noah is to take seven pairs of all the clean animals, and two pairs of all the unclean animals into the ark with him.
• God says, in seven days, He will make it rain 40 days and 40 nights upon the earth, and wipe out every living thing He had made.
• Noah did everything God commanded him.
• Noah was 600 years old when he and his family entered the ark.
• The rain started seven days later.

In verses 11-24, the flood of judgment came:

• Noah was 600 years old when the flood came on the seventeenth day of the second month.
• The water came from two directions: the watery depths burst open, and rain fell from the sky for 40 days and 40 nights.

• Noah and his wife, along with Shem, Ham, and Japheth with their wives, were in the ark along with all the animals, just as God had commanded them.
• Then the Lord shut them in the ark.
• The water continued for 40 days, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.
• The water surged even higher until even the mountain tops were covered by more than 20 feet.
• Just as God said, every creature on dry land perished; mankind, livestock, creatures that crawl, and birds.
• Only Noah and those with him in the ark were saved.
• The water surged on the earth 150 days (40 days of rain plus 110 more days).

Genesis 8

In verses 1-14, the flood waters recede:

• God remembered Noah and caused a wind to blow over the earth, causing the floodwaters to recede.
• The rain and the water from the watery depths ceased.
• After 150 days, the ark came to rest on the seventeenth day of the seventh month on Mount Ararat.
• The water continued to recede until, in the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
• After 40 days, Noah opened a window in the ark and sent out a raven. It flew back and forth until the waters had dried up.
• Then Noah sent out a dove, but it returned because it could find no place to rest.
• Noah waited seven days and sent the dove out again. This time when the dove returned in the evening, it had an olive leaf in her beak.
• Noah waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but this time the dove did not return.
• In the 601^st year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water had receded from the earth.
• Noah removed the cover from the ark and saw the ground was drying.
• By the 27^th day of the second month, the ground was dry.

In verses 15-22, Noah leaves the ark:

• Then God told Noah to come out of the ark with his family and all the animals.
• God commanded them to spread over the earth, be fruitful, and multiply.
• So Noah and his family and all the animals came out of the ark in groups.
• Then Noah built an altar to God and took some of every clean animal and bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
• When the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma of the burnt offerings, He promised never again to curse the ground because of man’s sinful nature, and to never again strike down every living creature.

Genesis 9

In verses 1-17, God established a covenant with Noah:

• God blessed Noah and his sons and told them to be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth.
• Every living thing is under your authority.
• Every living creature, along with green plants, will be your food, except you must not eat meat with its lifeblood.
• Every animal and every man that sheds the blood of another man was to die. Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for man is made in the image of God (v. 6).

• Then God said he was confirming His covenant with Noah, his family, and his descendants, and all the animals that came out of the ark. Never again, said God, will I destroy every creature with a flood.
• The sign of the covenant will be the rainbow in the sky. Whenever I (God) form the clouds, and the rainbow appears, I will remember the everlasting covenant between God and all the living creatures.

In verses 18-29, Noah prophecies about his family:

• Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who came out of the ark, populated the whole earth.
• Noah, a man of the soil, planted a vineyard.
• He drank some of the wine, got drunk, and fell asleep uncovered in his tent.
• Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his brothers.

• Shem and Japheth took a cloak, and turning away so they couldn’t see him, they covered their father.
• When Noah awoke and learned what his sons had done, he said:
  • Canaan will be cursed. He will be the lowest of slaves to his brothers.
  • Praise the Lord the God of Shem. Canaan will be his slave.
  • God will extend Japheth, he will dwell in the tents of Shem, and Canaan will be his slave.

• Noah lived 350 years after the flood and was the third-oldest man in the scripture living 950 years, and then he died.

Some thoughts for further consideration:

• Noah was saved because God judged him to be one righteous man that lived upon the earth. After the flood, Noah got drunk like the pagans God had wiped out.
• The sinful nature of man continued despite God’s judgment upon the earth.

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Tomorrow: Genesis 10-12