Gen 9:1 So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
Gen 9:2 “And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the air, on all that move
on the earth, and on all the fish of the sea. They are given into your hand.
Gen 9:3 “Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs.
Gen 9:4 “But you shall not eat flesh with its life,
that is, its blood.
One thing we must keep in mind here is that even today this holds true. The blessing placed on man, the animals still hold a fear of man. As can be seen in their unwillingness to be seen by us. This holds true for almost every animal that was not raised by an, and even someone that were. Ever had a cat hide from people that came over to visit? Or a dog that just didn't like anyone?
As we see in verse 3, HaShem gave all things as food. There simply no way to change this, and I will not try to. Yet as we will see in Lev. when we get there, this was changed. At lest to some extent.
Gen 9:5 “Surely for your lifeblood I will demand
a reckoning; from the hand of every beast I will require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of every man’s brother I will require the life of man.
Gen 9:6 “Whoever sheds man’s blood, By man his blood shall be shed; For in the image of God He made man.
This is rather self explanatory. I see no need to give any thing more on it.
Gen 9:9 “And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your descendants after you,
Gen 9:10 “and with every living creature that
is with you: the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, every beast of the earth.
Here we find the first covenant in witch HaShem makes with man, and ask nothing in return. It can be said that HaShem has entered a one sided covenant, with all his creation. Setting the president for others that will follow.
Gen 9:11 “Thus I establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
Gen 9:12 And God said: “This
is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that
is with you, for perpetual generations:
Gen 9:13 “I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.
Gen 9:14 “It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud;
Gen 9:15 “and I will remember My covenant which
is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.
As I see we have some posting on here that have in times past disrupted other threads of this nature, It should be known that if The Law had been removed, you would loss this one promise as well. Yet with every rain, (except at night when you can't see it) their is a rain bow. As this is a sign of this covenant, one must conclude that it still holds. As such, then we can say that not all The Torah was removed. I my self, once more really am not worried about what others may think. I follow what I follow, I teach the Word for what the word really does say. Most of all, I can not be moved from what the Word tells me.
Gen 9:18 Now the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham
was the father of Canaan.
It is of interest that HaShem seen fit to name only one son, Canaan. At lest in my mind, this is to say keep an eye on this family.
Gen 9:20 And Noah began
to be a farmer, and he planted a vineyard.
Gen 9:21 Then he drank of the wine and was drunk, and became uncovered in his tent.
So the first thing we find Noah doing is getting drunk. Does this mean that he was a drunk before hand? To many it does, yet one must wonder. After all did the word not say that Moses was righteous? No it said he was righteous in his generation. In other words, He was just better than everyone around him. No one, no matter what they think or say, is ever 100% with out sin. Though some will say that Enoch, and Elisha were. For the wages of sin is death, and nether of them tasted death, rather were taken.
Gen 9:22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
Gen 9:23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid
it on both their shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces
were turned away, and they did not see their father’s nakedness.
Gen 9:24
So Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him.
Gen 9:25
Then he said: “Cursed
be Canaan; A servant of servants He shall be to his brethren.”
So why did Canaan get this curse and not Ham? Some say that Canaan was the first to see Noah, and that he went and told Ham. Doing so in a disrespectful manner. Other say that Canaan had done something to Noah, as the Word says Noah knew what his younger son had done to him. We will really never know the answer to this. Yet Noah does go on to bless the other 2.