Genesis Chapter 9 Bible Study
God hadn’t forgotten Noah and all his ritually clean animals that were with him in the boat. When the big winds began to blow hard, the water started to go down. The sky’s barricades were closed. Once the rain had stopped, the water calmed for 150 days. On the seventh month of the 17th day, the boat came to rest at Ararat on a mountain. The water continued to pour down, and on the first day of the tenth month, the mountaintops were still there. After 40 days had passed, Noah sent out a raven and it didn’t come back. But the water was gone after the raven flew. Meanwhile, Noah sent out a dove to the water to see if the water had gone down, but since the water filled up all the land, the dove couldn’t find a place to shine a light. The dove flew back, and Noah reached out and took it in. For 7 days, Noah waited and sent out the dove again. In the evening, the dove returned with a fresh olive leaf in its mouth to carry. He waited again for another seven days and sent out the dove again; this time it didn’t come back.
On the first day of the month, the water was gone when Noah was 601. Noah took away the boat’s covering. He looked around and saw the dry ground. On the 27th day of the month, the earth was dry. God told Noah, “Get out of the boat with your family, animals and birds so that they will reproduce and expand every living thing on the earth.” Noah got out of the boat with his wife, sons and their wives. All of the different birds and animals went out of the boat in groups. Noah built a church to the Lord by taking one of each clean animal and bird to burn them up whole as a promising sacrifice. The odor of the sacrifice pleased the Lord, and He said, “I will never again put the earth under a curse. Because of people doing evil things, I won’t get rid of all human or living beings. As long as the world exists, there will be a sign of a harvest. There will also be heat and cold, summer and winter, and day and night.”
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Questions
2. What did God command Noah and his sons to do after the flood? 3. What did God prohibit Noah and his sons from consuming?