Through My Bible Yr 03 – March 03

Genesis 8:20 – 9:29

Through My Bible – March 03

Genesis 8:20 – 9:29 (EHV)

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Genesis 8

²⁰Noah built an altar to the Lord and took from every clean animal and every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. ²¹The Lord smelled the pleasant aroma. The Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the soil anymore because of man, for the thoughts he forms in his heart are evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike every living thing, as I have done. ²²While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”

God’s Covenant With the Earth

Genesis 9

¹God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. ²Every animal on the earth and every bird in the sky will fear you and dread you. Everything that swarms on the ground and all the fish in the sea are handed over to you. ³Every living, moving thing will be food for you. I have given everything to you, just as I gave you the green plants. ⁴But flesh that has the blood (which is its life) still in it, you shall not eat. ⁵In fact, I will hold each animal and each person responsible for your lifeblood. I will hold each man responsible for the life of his brother. ⁶Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man his blood shall be shed, for God made man in his own image.

⁷“But you, be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly on the earth, and multiply on it.”

⁸God said to Noah and to his sons, who were with him, ⁹“Listen, I will now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you ¹⁰and with everything with you that has the breath of life: with the birds, with the livestock, and with every wild animal that is on the earth with you, with everything that went out of the ark, even with every wild animal on the earth. ¹¹I will establish my covenant with you: Never again will all living creatures^[1] be cut off by the waters of a flood. Neither will there ever again be a flood to destroy the earth.”

¹²God also said, “This is the sign of the covenant between me and you and every living creature with you that I am giving for all generations to come. ¹³I have set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be the sign of a covenant between me and the earth. ¹⁴Whenever I bring a cloud over the earth and the rainbow is seen in the cloud, ¹⁵I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of every sort,^[2] and the waters will never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. ¹⁶The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it so that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of every kind that is on the earth.” ¹⁷God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

The Repopulation of the Earth

¹⁸The sons of Noah who went out from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) ¹⁹These three were the sons of Noah, and from these, people spread out over the whole earth.

²⁰Noah began to be a man of the soil and planted a vineyard. ²¹He drank some of the wine and got drunk. He lay uncovered inside his tent. ²²Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside. ²³Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it over their shoulders. They went in backwards and covered the nakedness of their father. They faced backwards, and they did not see their father’s nakedness. ²⁴Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him. ²⁵He said:

A curse on Canaan!
He will be the lowest of servants to his brothers.

²⁶Then he said:

Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem!
Let Canaan be his ser...