Chapter 3 -- The Flood Recedes

Taken from Genesis 8:1-23

God remembered Noah and his family, and all the animals in the ark.  God sent a wind to blow across the water and the flood waters began to disappear.  The streams of underground waters stopped flowing and the heavy rain stopped.  So the flood waters slowly began to run off of the earth.  After 150 days from the time the flood began, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.  Two and one half months later as the water kept going down, other mountain tops began to appear.

After another 40 days, Noah opened the window in the ark and he released a Raven.  But, the raven didn't come back, it flew back and forth in the sky until the earth was dry.  Then, Noah sent out a Dove to see if it could find dry ground.  But, the Dove couldn’t found any place to land, because the water was still too high.  So, the Dove returned to the ark.   Noah held out his hand and he brought the Dove back inside the ark.  Seven days later, Noah sent out the Dove again.  This time toward evening the Dove returned to Noah with a fresh olive leaf in it mouth.  Noah now knew that the water was almost gone.  A week later Noah sent out the Dove again, and this time the Dove didn’t come back.

Two more months went by, and at last the earth was dry.  Then God said to Noah, "Leave the ark, all of you.  Turn loose all the animals and the birds."  So Noah and his family left the ark, and all the different kinds of animals and birds came out of the ark in pairs (male and female) side by side of the same kind.

Then Noah built an altar and worshipped the Lord.  This pleased the Lord and he said, "I will never again destroy all living things with a flood, even though people's thoughts and actions are turned toward evil from childhood.  As long as the earth remains, there will be spring and fall, winter and summer, cold and heat, day and night they will continue.

QUESTION:

1. How did God make the flood water began to disappear?
1. _________________
2. What mountains did the ark come to rest on?
1.  ______________________
3. How many days was it from the time the flood began, that the ark came to rest on the mountain?
1. _____________
4. How long did it take for other mountain tops to begin to appear?
1. _______________
5. How many more days was it before Noah sent a Raven out from the ark?
1. ________
6. Noah also sent out a Dove.  Why did the Dove come back to the ark?
1. __________________________________
7. When Noah sent out the Dove the second time, what did the Dove return with?  

       a.  ____________________________________________

      8.  When Noah sent out the Dove the third time, what happened?

                    a. ______________________________________

      9.  How many more months did Noah have to wait for the earth to be dry?

                     a. _____________________

     10.  What did Noah do after he let the animals out of the ark?

                      a. _______________


Activity:

Unscramble the words

1.  haon     __________

2.  minaals    _______________

3.  rka    ___________

4.  venar     ________________

5.  evod     ______________

6.  liveo   flea    _______________

      7.  tarla    ___________________

 

 

 

Answer Sheet

Lesson Answers:

1.       How did God make the flood water began to disappear?  God sent a wind to blow across the water

2.      What mountains did the ark come to rest on?    Ararat

3.      How many days was it from the time the flood began, that the ark came to rest on the 

Mountain?  150

4.  How long did it take for other mountain tops to begin to appear?    2 ½ months later

5.  How many more days was it before Noah sent a Raven out from the ark?    40 days

       6.  Noah also sent out a Dove.  Why did the Dove come back to the ark?    Because the water

            was  too high for the dove to land anywhere else.

7.  When Noah sent out the Dove the second time, what did the Dove return with?     Fresh olive leaf in it mouth.

      8.  When Noah sent out the Dove the third time, what happened?    It didn’t come back

9.      How many more months did Noah have to wait for the earth to be dry?   2 more months

10.   What did Noah do after he let the animals out of the ark?  He built an altar

Answers to Unscramble the words

1.       haon     Noah

2.       minaals    animals

3.       rka    ark

4.  venar     raven

5.  evod     dove

6.  liveo   flea    olive leaf

    7.  tarla    altar