After Noah left the boat, he built an altar to God. He sacrificed as burnt offering, the animals and birds which God approved for the purpose of sacrifice.
God was pleased with the aroma of the sacrifice. God told Himself that He would never again curse the ground because of human beings, even though everything they think or imagine is bent towards evil from childhood.
God told Himself that He would never again destroy all living things as He had done with the flood.
He said, “As long as the world exists, there will be a time for planting and a time for harvest. There will always be cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.”
God then blessed Noah and his sons. He told them to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
He gave human beings power over all animals, all birds, and all the fish. He went to say to them concerning these creatures, “Now you can eat them, as well as green plants. I give them all to you for food.
The one thing you must not eat is meat with blood still in it. I forbid this because the life is in the blood.”
God told Noah and his sons that anyone who kills another person would be held responsible for the life of the person he killed. He added that if anyone kills a human being, that person must be killed.
To confirm the covenant God made with all living things, He said to Noah and His sons, “I am now making my covenant with you and with your descendants, and with all living beings — all birds and all animals — everything that came out of the boat with you.
With these words I make my covenant with you: I promise that never again will all living beings be destroyed by a flood. Never again will a flood destroy the earth.”
God gave a sign of this everlasting covenant He made with all living things. The sign is God’s bow which is called the “Rainbow”. He placed the rainbow in the clouds.
The rainbow always reminds God of the covenant He made with human beings and all other living things in which He promised that He will never again destroy all life with floodwaters.
Genesis 6:4-9:17
Questions:
• Why did God decide to destroy all human beings and living creatures in the air and on land?
• Who was the only righteous man God saw on earth?
• What did God tell Noah to build so as to be saved from the flood that destroyed the earth?
• How many people were saved from the flood that destroyed the earth?
• How old was Noah when the flood covered the earth?
• How many days and nights did rain fall on earth?
• What did God say would happen to any person who kills another person?
• What was the covenant God made with human beings and all other living things?
• What was the sign of the covenant?
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