Read Genesis 9.1-17. In 9.1-29: God's covenant with creation and Noah's curse of Canaan. In verses 3-4: God expands the earlier the original vegetarian diet for humans (1.29) to include the meat of animals which shall be food for you. However, the blood of any animal s to be drained from it before its flesh is eaten (Deut 12.23-25). the blood represents life, and returning it to the ground acknowledges that life belongs to God. In verses 5-6: Every killing of a human being is a serious threat to the social and moral order of society since it crosses the created boundary between life and death. In addition, God requires a reckoning or severe consequence (a life for a life) because humans are created in God's own image (1.26-27). God requires a reckoning even from an animal that kills a human ( v. 5; Ex 21.28-32). In verses 8-17: God establishes a covenant relationship with Noah and with all living creatures. God promises never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth (v. 11). This promise fills out the contents of the earlier covenant mentioned in6.18. The sign of the covenant is the rainbow in the sky. The bow will be a sign to jog the divine memory so that God will remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature (v. 16). In the ancient world, the rainbow was associated with the bow used by God to shoot arrows of lighting (Ps 7.12-13). To hang up the bow is the sky symbolized peace. Worldwide destruction would no longer be a strategy use by God. Comments or Questions..
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