Genesis 8

The Book of Genesis
Chapter 8
Genesis 8:1-3 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged; The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
1. Did God forget Noah?
2. What does 'remembered' mean in Hebrew?
3. What element did God use to dry up the flood waters?
4. 'waters returned from off the earth', to where?
5. How many days did it take for the water to be 'abated'?
Genesis 8:4-5 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
1. How long from the beginning of the flood till the Ark rested on Mountains of Ararat (Gen.7:11)?
2. Where are the Mountains Ararat?
3. How many months did the Ark rest on Ararat before they could actually see the mountain tops?
Genesis 8:6-9 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
1. What kind of bird did Noah first send?
2. What did the first bird do?
3. Noah sent a second bird, what kind?
4. What did it do?
Genesis 8:10-11 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
1. How many days passed before Noah sent the dove again?
2. What did the dove do this time?
3. How did the doves actions help Noah?
Genesis 8:12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
1. How many times did Noah send the dove?
2. What happened this time?
Genesis 8:13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
Using our calendar.
1. what year is it?
2. What month, what day?
3. How long had it been?
4. Was the earth completely dry?
Genesis 8:14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
1. How long on our calendar before the entire earth was dry?
Genesis 8:15-19 And God spake unto Noah, saying, Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him: Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark..
1. God speaks to Noah again and commands him to do what?
Genesis 8:20 And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
1. What do you think was the first thing Noah did?

a. See to his family?
b. Build a house?
c. Give praises to God?

Genesis 8:21-22 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
1. This offering so pleased God that the Lord decided what?
2. The first man's disobedience led to the fall of man. In what way do you think Noah's obedience and offering benefited generations of men?
3. Do you feel that obedience and offerings are important? Why?

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