Genesis Week 2 Answers

Genesis week 2 Answers

Chapter 5 - Chapter 8

1.      In week 1 we learned that Adam and Eve lived such a long life due to their God made perfect body genes. They knew perfect health. As the generation increased the human body was slowly changed genetically in their DNA due to sin and death entering the world through the disobedience of Adam and Eve.

2.      God chose Noah because he was found to be a “Just” man and “Perfect in his Generations”. Ch 6 verse 6.9 (Upright or righteous man) who was not found to be given to unrighteous sin as every other Ch 6 verse 5.

3.      It is commonly held that the “Sons of God” are angelic beings who had sexual relation with human women and these women bore the Nephilim (Hebrew word for them). The English word based on the Hebrew word is Nephilim.

4.      Each cubit is 45.6 cm or rounded up is 46cm. We know that an inch is to 2.5 cm. Thus, the arc is 5,520 inches or 460 feet long, 912 inches or 70 feet wide and 552 inches or 46 feet high.  It is extremely large and give the dimensions it is extremely stable.

5.      The answer is found in Chapter 6 verses 19 and 20. Two of every kind, male and female of all flesh and fowl, beasts and creeping things (including snakes for they creep using their scales). Then we see further instruction in we se in Chapter 7 verses 2 & 3 Noah was to bring in every clean beast by 7’s both male and female, and beasts that are not clean by two’s male and female, as well as every fowl by sevens male and female. This was done so that the earth could be seeded by all of them. We are not told what animals were considered clean or unclean, but we can assume that God told Noah what the distinction was, as it was only after, “Under the Law of Moses” (Mosaic Law) that we are given that information. We also know that sacrifices were made before the building of the Ark and time of Noah, as we can see by looking at Gen 4:4, so it is by this we can safely assume Noah knew of sacrifices to God and obviously knew clean from unclean with God having communicated that in some untold way.

6.      In Chapter 7 verse 6 we are told that Noah was 600 years old when the flood of water was upon the earth.

7.      The rain continued for 40 days (Ch 7:17) and forty nights and the waters remained on the earth. Then we are told in Chapter 8 verses 13 & 14 when the earth was dried. There are two parts to this. In verse 13 we must remember that the ark came to rest on Mount Ararat and the ground was dry around the ark in the first year/first month and first day, but that does not mean all the Earth was dry for we see in Verse 14 that it was in the 2nd month and day 27 that the earth was dried.

8.      Noah built and altar for sacrifice as soon as he was off the ark. Noah used only clean beasts and fowls for sacrifice as seen in Chapter 8 verse 20. The first fruits of clean animals and fowl were pleasing to the lord as the first fruits showed a heart for, and obedience to God, so He found it pleasing. (refer again to the difference between the sacrificial difference between Abel and Cain. Abel gave the first fruits of his flock and did so with a heart after God. Cain gave begrudgingly of his crop and his heart was not on God).