GENESIS

Chapter 6 & 7 

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Click this link for Genesis Chapter 7.

Story of the Flood

Chapter 6
Verses 1-7: God sees the evil that is on the earth.
Verse 8: The story of Noah begins.
Verses 9-10: Noah has 3 sons (Sham, Ham, Japheth)
Verses 13-22: God tells Noah to build an ark. (In Chapter 5:32, it tells us that Noah was 500 years old.) God gives very specific instructions for building the ark.

Chapter 7
Verse 1: God tells Noah to “come into the ark” (He did not say “go into the ark). God was already inside.
Verses 2-5: God gives Noah instructions for bringing in the animals.
Verse 4 tells us that Noah and everyone was in the ark for 7 days before it started to rain.
Verse 6: Noah is now 600 years old. It took a long time to build the ark!
Verse 7-15: Noah, his family and all the animals go into the ark. Verse 11 explains that not only did it rain but that the flood waters also came from the “deep” (underground).
Verse 16: God shut him in.
Verses 17-24: It rained for 40 days and 40 nights. Every living thing that had breath died in the flood – all that was outside of the ark. Except for the fish – they did not die. Fish don’t have breath and they live in the water, so they were not included. The flood waters stayed on the earth for 150 days (about 5 months).

Discussion:
• It took Noah 100 years or so to build the ark. What do you think his neighbors were thinking when they saw it being built?
• Do you think that Noah may have been the object of ridicule? Have you been the object of ridicule because someone did not understand what you were doing?
• Have you ever felt that God wanted you to do something that you thought was impossible? What did you do?
• It took a miracle to get all those animals into the ark. How else would they know where to go? What about their behavior? Seems like the animals did not fight with each other.
• What do you think about miracles?

The ark only had one door – one way in and one way out. And God was on both sides of that door. Jesus said He is the door or gate to salvation – only one way to be saved. Which side of the door are you on?

Matthew 7:13-14 Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.

John 10:9 I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

Activities for Children:
Craft sticks (or Legos, blocks)
Glue
Plastic animals
Toy people

Have the children make a boat out of craft sticks, blocks or Legos. When finished, add the people and the animals.

Or, if you have a toy boat, fill it with the animals and people and float it in a pool or bathtub.

For a dramatic display of the flood put toy people and plastic animals in an empty bathtub. Plug the drain and then slowly add water. Add a toy boat with “Noah” and the animals. The toy boat will rise with the water (saving Noah, his family and the animals).

Coloring pages for younger children:





To print out the coloring pages: Click on the image, select copy image, then paste the image onto a document (such as Word). You can make the image smaller or larger – then print.


Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture verses are from the New King James Version of the Bible.