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Genesis 9:1–17 — God's Covenant with Noah | Bible Commentary · A Tithe of Time Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to a tithe of time, verse by verse.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today we begin reading from the ESV, Genesis 9, 1-17, God's Covenant and the Rainbow.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea.
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  SPEAKER_00: Into your hand they are delivered.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
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  SPEAKER_00: And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning.
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  SPEAKER_00: From every beast I will require it and from man.
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  SPEAKER_00: From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you, be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you, and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is for every beast of the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God said, This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I bring clouds over the earth, and the bow is seen in the clouds, I will remember my covenant that is between me and you, and every living creature of all flesh.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.
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  SPEAKER_00: When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now let's look closer.
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  SPEAKER_00: The passage begins with familiar language Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: That echoes Genesis 1.
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  SPEAKER_00: After the flood, Noah's family is again told to fill the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: But something has changed between people and animals.
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  SPEAKER_00: God says the fear and dread of humanity will be upon them, and he allows animals to be eaten for food.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yet there is a restriction, they are not to eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then God turns to human life and says he will require a reckoning for bloodshed.
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  SPEAKER_00: The reason is important, for God made man in his own image.
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  SPEAKER_00: That reaches back to Genesis 1.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even after sin and the flood, humanity is still described in relation to God's image.
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  SPEAKER_00: Human life is treated with special seriousness because of whose image people bear.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then God establishes his covenant.
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  SPEAKER_00: Notice how wide it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: It includes Noah, his sons, their offspring, and every living creature that came out of the ark.
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  SPEAKER_00: The promise is specific.
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  SPEAKER_00: Never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then God gives the sign, I have set my bow in the cloud.
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  SPEAKER_00: The text simply says, My bow.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the sign we recognize as the rainbow.
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  SPEAKER_00: God says, I will remember my covenant.
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  SPEAKER_00: As we saw when God remembered Noah, this does not mean he had forgotten.
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  SPEAKER_00: It points to God acting faithfully according to what he has established.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's the picture Genesis 9:1-17 leaves us with.
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  SPEAKER_00: God blesses Noah's family, reaffirms the value of human life, and establishes a covenant with future generations and the living creatures of the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: The bow in the clouds stands as the sign of his promise never again to destroy all flesh by a flood.
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  SPEAKER_00: This concludes Genesis 9 1 17.
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  SPEAKER_00: Next, we'll continue with Genesis 9 18 29.
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  SPEAKER_00: And remember, tithe your time.