Genesis 9:1-7
God blesses Noah and His Sons... [ Continue Reading ]
God blesses Noah and His Sons... [ Continue Reading ]
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. This is a repetition and a confirmation of the blessing of creation, Genesis 1:28. As founders of the new human race, Noah and his sons received the assurance of God's blessing for the propagati... [ Continue Reading ]
And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. This is an extension and a confirmation of the order of God by which man was giv... [ Continue Reading ]
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. In the early days of the human race God had restricted man to a vegetarian diet, Genesis 1:29, but now everything that lived and moved, all animals, were included in the food which was at man's... [ Continue Reading ]
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. Although the eating of flesh was permitted, yet a restriction is added to the concession, namely, that excluding flesh as food while the living blood was still coursing through the veins, whether this referred to pieces c... [ Continue Reading ]
And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.... [ Continue Reading ]
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God made He man. While the blood and the life of animals is in the power of man, he is strictly forbidden to shed that of his fellow-man. The blood of every person with reference to his soul (since the life is in the blo... [ Continue Reading ]
And you, be ye fruitful and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. Cf v. 1; Genesis 1:28. The emphatic repetition is not without significance, especially in view of the situation as it now exists.... [ Continue Reading ]
And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,... [ Continue Reading ]
THE RAINBOW A TOKEN OF THE COVENANT... [ Continue Reading ]
And I, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your seed after you,... [ Continue Reading ]
and with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you, from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. The Lord here addresses both Noah and his sons, although the latter occupied a subordinate position. He established, se... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will establish My covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. This is the resolution which God had determined upon within Himself, Genesis 8:21, which He now made known to man as His cove... [ Continue Reading ]
And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:... [ Continue Reading ]
I do set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth. In confirmation of His words God gave to man a special token, or sign, for everlasting generations, to last as long as the earth stands. This token was to be a reminder of the covenant which the Lord no... [ Continue Reading ]
And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud;... [ Continue Reading ]
and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. In speech which is modeled strongly after that of men, and by a repetition of thought which emphasizes the bow and the c... [ Continue Reading ]
And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is upon the earth. Whenever we see the rainbow in the clouds, we should remember the covenant of God toward all flesh, the fact that He-is at peace with His creatures, so far as their out... [ Continue Reading ]
And the sons of Noah that went forth of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOAH'S SIN... [ Continue Reading ]
These are the three sons of Noah; and of them was the whole earth overspread. Since Noah had no more sons after the Flood, his three sons may be said to have been the progenitors of the human race since that great catastrophe. Attention is called thus early to Canaan, the son of Ham, since he and hi... [ Continue Reading ]
And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard;... [ Continue Reading ]
and he drank of the wine and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. Noah, as a husbandman, as a tiller of the soil, now devoted himself to the cultivation of the vine: he planted a vineyard. But in making use of the product of his labors he forgot the caution which is essential in the li... [ Continue Reading ]
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. This act on the part of Ham, enjoying the shame of his father in making it a matter of scornful joking over against his brothers, showed both a lack of the proper respect toward his father and a pronen... [ Continue Reading ]
And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness. Even though Noah had sinned, it was not the business of the sons to make mockery of the... [ Continue Reading ]
And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. As the intoxication wore off, Noah awoke to soberness and found out what Ham had done, probably by reason of the dress which covered him. It was doubtless with deep humiliation that he became fully aware of the role which... [ Continue Reading ]
The curse upon Canaan... [ Continue Reading ]
And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. The curse strikes Canaan, because he followed his father in his sinful, wicked disposition. Therefore his offspring, his whole generation, should be cursed by being servants of servants to the brothers of Ham and the... [ Continue Reading ]
And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. The Lord Jehovah, the true, living God, was to be the God of Shem. From the descendants of Shem the Lord chose the people to whom He entrusted His oracles, the Messianic prophecies. From the descendants of Shem, from the... [ Continue Reading ]
God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. The blessing of God came upon Japheth and his descendants, chiefly the European nations. They have been spread out far and wide; they have had the destinies of the world in their hands, under God. Bu... [ Continue Reading ]
And Noah lived after the Flood three hundred and fifty years.... [ Continue Reading ]
And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died. Holy man though he was, and distinguished above all men of his time, he yet, as a sinner, was subject to death: he went the way of all flesh.... [ Continue Reading ]