Click Arrow To Start Audio
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)
GENESIS – LESSON SEVEN
I. The Table of Nations: The Generations of the Sons of Noah Shem, Ham and Japheth (Chapters 10-
A. The sons of Japheth –list of seven sons – seven grandsons through Gomer and Javan (10:2-
1. Gomer
2. Magog
3. Madai
4. Javan
5. Tubal
6. Meshech
7. Tiras
B. The sons of Ham – list of four sons – twenty-
1. Cush
2. Mizraim
3. Put
4. Canaan
C. The sons of Shem – list five sons – five grandsons through Aram and Arpachshad– descendants of one great grandson :Eber of Shelah of Arpachshad through lineage of Joktan of Eber (10:21-
1. Elam
2. Asshur
3. Arpachshad
4. Lud
5. Aram
D. God thwarts work of the children of men building a great city and tower (11:1-
1. City and tower built with burned brick.
2. Purpose of tower reaching into heaven: make us a great name.
3. Work ends when God confounds their one language: city called Babel.
4. Jehovah scatters men abroad upon the face of the earth.
E. The generations of Shem – list of generations through Arpachshad and Peleg unto Terah (11:10-
F. The generations of Terah – Migration from Ur (11:27-
1. Abram married to Sarai
2. Nahor married to Milcah
3. Haran who begat Lot
4. After Haran’s death in Ur, Terah takes extended family into Haran before coming to Canaan.
QUESTIONS:
1. What key verses in chapter 10 show the table of nations were constructed following the events of Babel in chapter 11?
2. To what two general geographical areas did the descendants of Japheth spread?
3. To what three general geographical areas did the descendants of Ham spread?
4. Why is Nimrod characterized as a “mighty one in the earth”?
5. The Philistines were the descendants of whom?
6. Who was Canaan’s first born?
7. To what general geographical area did the descendants of Shem spread?
8. Why are the children of Eber so significant in the list of the generations of nations?
9. What was the mindset of the children of men in the land of Shinar in building a city?
10. Why did God confound their language?
11. Why is the city called “Babel”?
12 What is the difference between the two lists of the generations of Shem?
13. How long did Shem live after the flood?
14. Where was Abram’s family from?
15. What fact do you know about Sarai, Abram’s wife in chapter 11?
16. Who was Lot’s sister?
17. Where in Canaan did Terah bring his extended family?