“Lesson 6: ‘Noah … Prepared an Ark to the Saving of His House’” Old Testament: Gospel Doctrine Teacher’s Manual (2001), 23–26
Purpose
To help class members desire to live worthily and avoid the evils of the world.
Preparation
Prayerfully study the following scriptures:
Moses 8:19–30; Genesis 6:5–22; 7:1–10. Noah preaches the gospel, but the people do not listen (Moses 8:19–25). Because of the people’s wickedness, the Lord declares that he will destroy all flesh from the earth (Moses 8:26–30; Genesis 6:5–13). The Lord commands Noah to build an ark and take his family and two of every living thing into it (Genesis 6:14–22; 7:1–10).
Genesis 7:11–24; 8; 9:8–17. It rains for 40 days and 40 nights (Genesis 7:11–12). All people and creatures that are not on the ark die, and the waters cover the earth for 150 days (Genesis 7:13–24). When the waters recede, Noah, his family, and the animals leave the ark (Genesis 8:1–19), and Noah offers sacrifice to the Lord (Genesis 8:20–22). The Lord establishes his covenant with Noah and sets the rainbow as a token of the covenant (Genesis 9:8–17; note that the Joseph Smith Translation of verse 15 states that the covenant was between God and Noah, not between God and every living creature).
Genesis 11:1–9. A few generations after the flood, the people try to build a tower to heaven (the tower of Babel). The Lord confounds their language so they cannot understand one another and scatters them over the whole earth.
Additional reading: Hebrews 11:7; Moses 7:32–36.
If the following audiovisual materials are available, you may want to use some of them as part of the lesson:
A brief excerpt from “Noah and the Flood,” part 2 of the Beginnings/Abraham videocassette (53150).
The pictures Building the Ark (62053; Gospel Art Picture Kit 102); Noah and the Ark with Animals (62305; Gospel Art Picture Kit 103); and Creation—Living Creatures (62483; Gospel Art Picture Kit 100).
Suggested Lesson Development
Additional Teaching Ideas
The following material supplements the suggested lesson outline. You may want to use one or more of these ideas as part of the lesson.
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