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May 7, 2018

Assignment #5 Old Testament Study Lesson: Gen. 9 and 10


Assignments in Genesis

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Brief Outline of Gen. 9:
I) God gives blessing to Noah.
    II) God makes His covenant with Noah and all living creatures.
    III) Recap of who was with Noah.
     IV) Noah’s new life.
      V) Curse put on Canaan.
     VI) Noah’s life summed up.


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Verses 1-7:
God blessed Noah and his family and told them again to be fruitful and multiply.
·   Genesis 1:22, 28 and Isa. 45: 18

All the beasts, birds, creeping things, and fish would be given into man’s hand. Remember that before the fall man was to rule over the creatures. But now the creatures would have fear and terror of man. Also, remember that when man fell to sin, the earth and creatures were cursed also.
  • Consider Romans 8:18-23. In the future creation will be set free from its slavery (bondage to corruption).
In verse 3, we see God gave man every moving thing as food, only he was not to eat flesh with its blood. In other words, they weren’t to eat the blood (or drink the blood). Therefore, the blood is to be drained before eating it.
  • Look up Gen. 18:7-8 notice that the meat had to be prepared.
What do verses 5-6 talk about? That God requires the lifeblood of man from every man and beast. Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man his blood is to be shed, because man is made in the image of God. So even though we read in Genesis 5 that Seth was made in Adam’s image, there is still a sense in which man is made in the image of God. He values the life He gives to individuals. Murder is severe to God.
  • Look up Ex. 20:13; 21:12-14, 28-32 “You shall not murder.”
    • A person who kills intentionally (a murderer) should be put to death.
  • Leviticus 24:17-21 A man who intentionally takes the life of a human being was to be put to death. Animal for an animal, injury for injury, eye for eye, tooth for tooth
God will require each person to account for his or her actions. We cannot harm or kill another human being without answering to God. A penalty must be paid, and justice served.
  • 9:5-6 Here God explains why murder is so wrong: To kill a person is to kill one made in God's image.
    • Because all human beings are made in God's image, all people possess the qualities that distinguish them from animals: morality, reason, creativity, and self-worth. When we interact with others, we are interacting with beings made by God, beings to whom God offers eternal life. God wants us to recognize His image in all people.
    • Now you may be wondering about war. Consider Ecc. 3:8 (note we will talk about war in a later lesson).
In Numbers 35:9-34 Provision for unintentional killing Cities of refuge to which the slayer could go to.

Verses 8-17:
God established an everlasting covenant with Noah (and his sons) and every living creature, that a flood would never again cut off all flesh or destroy the earth. The sign of the covenant is a bow in the clouds.

So, does this mean that God will never destroy the earth again?

No, because 2 Peter 3:10-13 says it won’t be destroyed again with a flood. But He’ll again destroy it because of ungodliness. The next time will be with fire.

Now you might be thinking about floods we have now a-days. YES, there is destruction and loss of life, but even though areas are hit, the WHOLE EARTH isn’t.

Verses 18-19:
The whole earth was repopulated from Noah’s three sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

  • Ham was the father of Canaan. Canaan is important because he had children who settled in the area that was called the land of Canaan. God gave that land to Israel.
Verses 20-27:
 Noah began farming and planted a vineyard. Afterwards, he was drunk and naked inside his tent. Ham (Canaan’s father) saw Noah’s nakedness and told his brothers. But look at the contrast of what Shem and Japheth did. They walked backward so as not to see Noah’s nakedness and covered him.

Noah knew what Ham had done and cursed Canaan. He would be a servant to his brothers.  Then there is a blessing in contrast with the curse.

  • He said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem,” and “May God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem.”
    • NOTE: The text does not tell us any more details concerning Ham. So, be careful not to allow speculating about it.
At the end of chapter 9 of Gen. we get a summed up that Noah lived 350 years after the Flood, so he lived a total of 950 years, and he died.


Now let’s look at Genesis 10

I)    Introduction of this chapter.
II)  The family line of Japheth (son of Noah).
III) The family line of Ham (son of Noah).
IV)  The family line of Shem (son of Noah and who is traced in the line of Jesus).

The thing to remember when starting to read this chapter is that it starts building nations and talks about languages. It basically gives us an overview. And then chapter 11 gives us more detail. So, the first thing to remember is that when God first made the dry lands it was ONE mass— not broken up as we know it today. So, when first reading through this chapter just mark and make you a list of who is who and from what son. And the reason being is because there is a certain verse that you will want to make special note of.

This is common in the Book of Genesis. Just as Gen. 2 gave more clarity to Gen. 1, Gen. 11 will give us more clarity to Gen. 10. So, don’t feel overwhelmed starting out with this chapter, just take it for God showing us how the earth is being repopulated, and getting a grasp of which son is who. Because, though this chapter starts talking about nations and languages… we don’t get to how that happened until we get a little more insight from a specific verse, and then also the first part of Gen. 11.


So here we go.

Vs. 2-5) The sons of Japhet (who was one of the brothers to politely cover his dad during Noah’s drunken slumber).
  • Sons of Japhet: Gomer, Magog, Madia, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, Tiras. Gomer:
    • Ashkenaz (some relate Ashkenaz with the Sithians, a group of people that came up later in history).
      • The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, Dodanin. And from these were the coastland nations.
        • Look at the name Tarshish.  Where do we hear that name from? Jonah tried to flee to Tarshish when told to go and warn Nineveh. Where do we see the name Nineveh? From the line we see coming from one of Ham’s sons (Cush – verse 6-20).

Several of these—Gomer, Magog, Tubal, Meshech, Togarmah, Tarshish—are mentioned in Ezekiel in relationship to war and God’s judgment in the end times.

Vs. 6-20) The sons of Ham (the one to apparently mock Noah in his drunkenness) were Cush, Mizraim, Put, Canaan.
  • One of Ham’s sons was Cush, who became the father of Nimrod.  Nimrod was a mighty hunter before the Lord. 
    • The beginning of his kingdom was Babel (or Babylon), Erech, Accad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar. Then he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and Resen in Assyria. 
      • NOTE: Assyria and Babylon took the Northern and Southern kingdoms of Israel captive later in history after the nation of Israel was divided into two separate nations.
      • Look and see how Genesis 11:1-9 fits here. (Genesis 11 gives the details about Babel.  Chronologically it happened during Nimrod’s time). And up until this time, the whole earth had used the same language.
      • Another son of Ham’s was Mizraim was the father of Casluhim from which came the Philistines.
      • And then another of Ham’s sons was Canaan who was the father of Sidon, Heth, the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite, the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. These were the nations living in the Promised Land that was given to Israel. The Promised Land was called Canaan.

Vs 21-32) Tells us about Shem, who is called the father of all the children of Eber, his grandson.

  • NOTE: Some commentators think that “Eber” is the root word for “Hebrew.”
  • Arpachshad became the father of Shelah, and Shelah became the father of Eber, and two sons were born to Eber, Peleg and Joktan.
What is so important about Peleg? The earth was divided in his days.

So, look at this and consider: Shem had Arpachshad 2 years after the flood. Arpachshad was 35 when he had Shelah, Shelah was 30 when he had Eber, and Eber was 34 when he had Peleg; which makes it a total of 101 years after the Flood. 

The earth was divided at least 101 years after the Flood.
 
As with Ham and Japheth’s descendants, Shem’s also was separated by language and families (clans into lands and nations).

 How does verse 32 summarize this chapter?

  • These are the families Noah’s sons according to their genealogies and by which became their nations.
    • Out of his sons the nations were separated and spread abroad on earth after the Flood.


 My friend, I hope this lesson has been insightful to you! I look forward to seeing you next time! Be blessed and may God’s Word grow you!
Kassie.




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