Genesis 5:4-5 “After he begot Seth, the days of Adam were eight hundred years; and he had sons and daughters. So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.” Many years before his death, Adam had been forewarned of this eventual outcome was he to eat of the […]
Genesis 5:3 “And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.” In the previous verses, the Bible tells us that in the day God created mankind, He created man in His likeness. In this verse, we are told that Seth was […]
Genesis 5:1-2 “This is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God. He created them male and female, and blessed them and called them Mankind in the day they were created.” An alternate rendering of this verse is, “This is the […]
Genesis 4:26 “And as for Seth, to him also a son was born; and he named him Enosh. Then men began to call on the name of the Lord.” The one who was appointed had a son whose name, Enosh, meant “man” or “mortal.” It is during his lifetime that Judaism believes that idolatry began […]
Genesis 4:25 And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and named him Seth, “For God has appointed another seed for me instead of Abel, whom Cain killed.” Righteous Abel had been murdered, Cain was cursed and Cain’s descendants were evil. The promise of the Seed of the Woman seemed hopeless until […]
Genesis 4:19, 22 “Then Lamech took for himself two wives: the name of one was Adah, and the name of the second was Zillah. … And as for Zillah, she also bore Tubal-Cain, an instructor of every craftsman in bronze and iron.” The Lamech mentioned here is not to be confused with the father of […]
Genesis 4:16-17 “Then Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and dwelt in the land of Nod on the east of Eden. And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. And he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son – Enoch.” […]
Genesis 4:15 “And the Lord set a mark on Cain, lest anyone finding him should kill him.” Embedded within this statement are several mysteries. First of all, considering that the Bible has not heretofore mentioned any other humans other than Cain’s immediate family, who would be looking for him? It would seem there are other […]
Genesis 4:13-14 And Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is greater than I can bear! Surely You have driven me out this day from the face of the ground; I shall be hidden from Your face.” After God confronted Cain with his sin and sentenced him to a life of wandering, the world’s first […]
Genesis 4:10-11 And He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground. So now you are cursed from the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.” You won’t notice it in English, but in the Hebrew text, the […]
Genesis 4:9 Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said, ‘I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?” How is it that two brothers, conceived in the same womb, raised by the same parents can be so diametrically opposed to one another? It is just another example of the […]
GENESIS 4:8 “Now Cain talked with Abel his brother; and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.” Instead of heeding God’s admonition to arrest the desire to commit sin, Cain gave in to it, calling Abel out into the field in […]
