GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 9 GOD MAKES AN AGREEMENT WITH NOAH V1 And God promised good things to Noah and to his sons. He said to them, ‘Have large families. Increase so that you fill the earth. V2 Every animal that is on the earth will be afraid of you. Every bird that f... [ Continue Reading ]
God began to teach men that blood is especially important. Later, he taught this to men in other ways. (See Exodus 12:7; Exodus 12:13.) Blood is especially important because it is a sign of Jesus’ death. Jesus died so that he could remove our blame. When he died, he gave his blood for us. Jesus has... [ Continue Reading ]
People are very important to God. He said clearly that no-one may kill a person. And God explained an extra reason for this. People are images of God. (See Genesis 1:26.) Therefore, if one kills a person, that is an attack on God. ‘If anyone kills a man, a man shall kill him.’ So people would kill... [ Continue Reading ]
For ‘clean’ animals see the comment on Genesis 7:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
An agreement is different from a promise. God made promises to people and he also made agreements with people. He made this firm agreement with Noah. And later he made a firm agreement with Abraham. (See Genesis 15:18.) When two people agree with each other, there is an agreement. Both people must... [ Continue Reading ]
This may not mean that God put his rainbow in the cloud for the first time. Perhaps there had been rainbows before and Noah had seen them. But before this time the rainbow was not a sign. God told Noah that the rainbow would be a sign of his firm agreement with all people and animals. It was a firm... [ Continue Reading ]
‘Canaan’ in this chapter is a person’s name. After this, *Canaan is also the name of a country.... [ Continue Reading ]
A vine is a kind of plant. People make wine out of the fruits of vines.... [ Continue Reading ]
‘Then he knew what his youngest son had done to him.’ But Noah’s youngest son was Japheth. And what Japheth did was not wrong. And verse 25 shows us that Canaan had done something wrong. So ‘his youngest son’ may mean Noah’s grandson, Canaan. The *Hebrew word for ‘son’ also means ‘grandson’. And so... [ Continue Reading ]