Bible Questions And Answers

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THE WORLD BEFORE THE FLOOD (Genesis 5)

1. What son did God give Adam and Eve after they had lost both Cain and Abel?

2. How long was the life of a man as here indicated?

3. What three names in this chapter are specially to be remembered?

4. Which of these three had the shortest life and why?

THE FLOOD (Genesis 6-9)

1. What two races of men seem now to be living in the world?
2. Did these continue to exist separately?
3. What was the character of their descendants?
4. What did god resolve to do?
5. Did he find one faithful family?
6. What command did God give Noah?
7. What was Noah said to be, according to 2 Peter 2: 5
8. To whom did he preach?
9. What was the consequence?
10. How were Noah and his family preserved?

ANSWERS

THE WORLD BEFORE THE FLOOD

1. Seth first, and other after.
2. Nine hundred years or more
3. Methusaleh, the oldest man, Enoch who “walked with God”, and Noah in whose days the floods came. See vs. 24, 27, 28, 29.
4. Of the three men Enoch had the shortest life. He only lived 365 years “ and he was not, for God took him.”

 THE FLOOD

1. A godly race, worshiping the true god, and called “sons (and daughters) of God”; and a worldly and idolatrous race, called (sons and) daughters of men”. Gen. 6:1-6.
2. No
3. They were mighty men; men of renown, and very wicked.
4. To destroy both man and beast. Gen 6:7
5. Yes, Noah’s. Gen 6: 8-22
6. He commanded him to build an ark in which he and others with him might be saved from the flood of waters which god was to bring upon the earth.
7. A preacher of righteousness.
8. To all who met, telling them of the flood which was coming to destroy them. But they would not believe.
9. The flood came and took them all away. Gen 7: 21-23

In the ark which Noah built at God's command.