Mar 28 - God's Reminder

Read Genesis 9:1-7

Context: Noah and his family have survived the great flood, and the land has dried up. He released the animals and built an altar to the Lord, sacrificing some of the clean animals and clean birds.

Text:
1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. 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. 3 Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
4 "But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. 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.
6 "Whoever sheds the blood of man,
by man shall his blood be shed;
for in the image of God
has God made man.
7 As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it." (NIV)

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Last time God started the human race he created man in his own image. It didn't take long for Cain to kill his brother, Abel. This time God is giving man another chance, only this time he is pretty specific about killing. I don't see any text showing that God told Adam that he had been made in the image of God, I wonder if this was a new insight for Noah?