Lesson 05 - God’s Covenant with Noah Genesis – 9:1–10:32
Lesson 5 – God's Covenant with Noah
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Scripture Passage: Genesis 9:1-10:32
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OPEN IT
1. What do you think is appropriate or inappropriate about capital punishment?
EXPLORE IT
2. What did God tell Noah and his sons to do? (Gen.9:1, 7)
3. What did God give to Noah and his sons? (Gen.9:2-3)
4. For what did God say He would demand an accounting? (Gen.9:4-6)
5. What was the covenant that God established with Noah? (Gen.9:8-17)
6. What sign of His covenant with Noah did God give? (Gen.9:8-17)
7. What did Noah do after he got off the ark? (Gen.9:18-21)
8. What did Noah's sons do in response to what Noah did? (Gen.9:22-24)
9. How did Noah respond to what his sons did? (Gen.9:25-27)
10. What happened to Noah's son Japheth? (Gen.10:2-5)
11. What happened to Noah's son Ham? (Gen.10:6-20)
12. What did the author say about Nimrod? (Gen.10:8-9)
13. What happened to Noah's son Shem? (Gen.10:21-31)
GET IT
14. Why do you think God instituted capital punishment?
15. What are the significant elements in the covenant between God and Noah?
APPLY IT
16. How should God's covenant faithfulness influence the way you live this week?
Explore It Answers
This section is designed to prompt thoughts about how and why to derive each scripture-based answer, so the actual answer is based upon individual study and may not be fully disclosed here. Here, also, are parallel verses for the key scripture texts.
Biblical Answer 2
What did God tell Noah and his sons to do? (Gen.9:1, 7)
Key Scripture: Genesis 9:1, 7 | Parallel Texts: Deuteronomy 32:8; Acts 17:26; Revelation 7:9
Biblical Answer 3
What did God give to Noah and his sons? (Gen.9:2-3)
Key Scripture: Genesis 9:2-3 | Parallel Texts: Genesis 10:32; Deuteronomy 32:8; Acts 2:6-11
Biblical Answer 4
For what did God say He would demand an accounting? (Gen.9:4-6)
Key Scripture: Genesis 9:4-6 | Parallel Texts: Genesis 1:27; Genesis 9:6; James 3:9
Biblical Answer 5
What was the covenant that God established with Noah? (Gen.9:8-17)
Key Scripture: Genesis 9:8-17 | Parallel Texts: Genesis 15:6; Romans 4:3; Galatians 3:6
Biblical Answer 6
What sign of His covenant with Noah did God give? (Gen.9:8-17)
Key Scripture: Genesis 9:8-17 | Parallel Texts: Genesis 9:13; Isaiah 54:9-10; Revelation 4:3
Biblical Answer 7
What did Noah do after he got off the ark? (Gen.9:18-21)
Key Scripture: Genesis 9:18-21 | Parallel Texts: James 1:19-20; Proverbs 15:1; Ephesians 4:31-32
Biblical Answer 8
What did Noah's sons do in response to what Noah did? (Gen.9:22-24)
Key Scripture: Genesis 9:22-24 | Parallel Texts: Deuteronomy 32:8; Acts 17:26; Revelation 7:9
Biblical Answer 9
How did Noah respond to what his sons did? (Gen.9:25-27)
Key Scripture: Genesis 9:25-27 | Parallel Texts: Genesis 10:32; Deuteronomy 32:8; Acts 2:6-11
Biblical Answer 10
What happened to Noah's son Japheth? (Gen.10:2-5)
Key Scripture: Genesis 10:2-5 | Parallel Texts: Romans 12:18; Proverbs 16:7; Matthew 5:9
Biblical Answer 11
What happened to Noah's son Ham? (Gen.10:6-20)
Key Scripture: Genesis 10:6-20 | Parallel Texts: James 1:19-20; Proverbs 15:1; Ephesians 4:31-32
Biblical Answer 12
What did the author say about Nimrod? (Gen.10:8-9)
Key Scripture: Genesis 10:8-9 | Parallel Texts: Deuteronomy 32:8; Acts 17:26; Revelation 7:9
Biblical Answer 13
What happened to Noah's son Shem? (Gen.10:21-31)
Key Scripture: Genesis 10:21-31 | Parallel Texts: Matthew 24:37-39; 2 Peter 2:5; 2 Peter 3:6
Commentary Summary
In Genesis 9:1-10:32, God's Covenant with Noah highlights doctrinal themes such as God’s character, human accountability, and the certainty of His redemptive purpose. The passage emphasizes the character of God, human accountability, and the certainty of His covenant purposes. The emphasis is theological, asking what the text teaches about creation, covenant, judgment, grace, salvation, and the trustworthiness of God. This summary is designed to identify the major truths being taught, not merely repeat the narrative details.
In God's Covenant with Noah, the flow of Genesis 9:1-10:32 emphasizes practical faith, obedience, and response to God. The lesson calls readers to trust God, obey His word, and respond to Him with reverence and faith. The focus here is pastoral and applicational, showing how the lesson challenges the reader to trust, repent, endure, worship, and walk in obedience. This summary is intentionally more devotional and exhortational so it does not simply duplicate the doctrinal wording used in the other commentary summaries.
Within the broader storyline of Genesis and the Bible as a whole, Genesis 9:1-10:32 helps move forward the pattern of promise, failure, mercy, and restoration that runs through Scripture. This section advances the book of Genesis by showing how God preserves His promise and moves the biblical story forward. This summary is shaped to sound more like a Bible Project overview by emphasizing literary flow, biblical themes, and how the lesson contributes to the unified story of Scripture. The goal is to locate the passage in the wider narrative rather than repeat the same doctrinal or devotional emphasis.
Last Week
THINK ABOUT THIS: From Noah we learn patience and faith. Noah took more than a hundred years to build the ark. He patiently worked and witnessed to the people who rejected his message (2 Peter 2:5).
This Week
A few of Joktan's sons can be associated with known places, but most are probably associated with Arabia. Sheleph has been associated with the Yemenite tribes called Salf or Sulf. Hadoram is the area of Hadramaut east of Yemen.
Next Week
How wicked and rebellious is the natural heart of man! It is not long since the flood, and yet man is again rebelling. Our own hearts will always naturally turn from the Lord's love and grace to our own schemes of self-exaltation.
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