Genesis 9

Question 1

Genesis 9:1

Answer 1

Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.

Question 2

Genesis 9:2

Answer 2

The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands.

Question 3

Genesis 9:3

Answer 3

Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

Question 4

Genesis 9:4

Answer 4

“But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.

Question 5

Genesis 9:5

Answer 5

And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each man, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of his fellow man.

Question 6

Genesis 9:6

Answer 6

“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man.

Question 7

Genesis 9:7

Answer 7

As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.”

Question 8

Genesis 9:8

Answer 8

Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him:

Question 9

Genesis 9:9

Answer 9

“I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you

Question 10

Genesis 9:10

Answer 10

and with every living creature that was with you–the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you–every living creature on earth.

Question 11

Genesis 9:11

Answer 11

I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

Question 12

Genesis 9:12

Answer 12

And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:

Question 13

Genesis 9:13

Answer 13

I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

Question 14

Genesis 9:14

Answer 14

Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,

Question 15

Genesis 9:15

Answer 15

I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.

Question 16

Genesis 9:16

Answer 16

Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”

Question 17

Genesis 9:17

Answer 17

So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth.”

Question 18

Genesis 9:18

Answer 18

The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)

Question 19

Genesis 9:19

Answer 19

These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the earth.

Question 20

Genesis 9:20

Answer 20

Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.

Question 21

Genesis 9:21

Answer 21

When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent.

Question 22

Genesis 9:22

Answer 22

Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.

Question 23

Genesis 9:23

Answer 23

But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father’s nakedness.

Question 24

Genesis 9:24

Answer 24

When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him,

Question 25

Genesis 9:25

Answer 25

he said, “Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers.”

Question 26

Genesis 9:26

Answer 26

He also said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem.

Question 27

Genesis 9:27

Answer 27

May God extend the territory of Japheth ; may Japheth live in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his slave.”

Question 28

Genesis 9:28

Answer 28

After the flood Noah lived years.

Question 29

Genesis 9:29

Answer 29

Altogether, Noah lived years, and then he died.