Did she get a man from the LORD or did she get a baby from sexual intercourse? There is no mention of making a body from dust or of the breathing of life into it just that Adam 'knew' his wife and she had a baby. No LORD required.

She's had another baby, I'm guessing intercourse was involved again. No LORD mentioned this time, I suspect she was less surprised by the second birth. Evidently at the very least fourteen years have passed between the beginning of this line and it's end, Cain and Abel are grown up and productive. One question that arises is... with a total population of four, how many sheep would you need to keep? I'd postulate that if there are only four of you on the whole earth that a hunter gatherer lifestyle would be more efficient than farming

Did he bring his wares to Eden or has the LORD taken to making forays out into the cursed land that he has tossed Adam and Eve out to. Why is Cain even taking offerings to the LORD? Didn't the LORD lie to his father Adam about the nature of the trees in Eden? Didn't Adam tell Cain that eating the crops from the land was the punishment given to Adam by the LORD, clearly the LORD doesn't like ground fruit for him to think it a worthy punishment.

I'm still confused why either of these sons of Adam decided that the Liar of Eden is a worthy recipient for their offerings.

What did Cain expect, the LORD clearly does not like vegetables, it says so in Genesis 2.

It seems that the LORD lacks empathy and is poorly equipped to understand that if you don't like someones gift they are likely to get upset.

I can't make sense of this line, accepted by whom? Cain did well at farming and was not accepted by the LORD. What does sin have to do with offering crops to someone? Who shall who rule over?

What? I didn't see that coming. Perhaps the last line tells us why Cain was compelled to kill his brother. I'm guessing that the approval of the LORD was such a great thing to Cain that his jealousy caused him to kill his brother but that seems quite insane and if that is the case I still can't fathom why they care so much what the LORD thinks.

This is the second example of the LORD god being unable to find someone. Why does Cain lie anyway, given the nature of this LORD I'd have assumed that offering Abel's body to the LORD would have been met with favour, or at least have been preferable to vegetables.

The LORD has a feeling that Abel is dead, either that or the blood was actually crying?

I'm guessing earth means something like country in this instance because if it means the earth in general then the next few parts don't make sense.

God damns him to be an unsuccessful farmer, Well since god issued farming as a punishment to Adam and isn't partial to the product of farming, I don't see what God intends to achieve here.

Really? What is so great about this punishment, could Cain not take up tending sheep now that the land beneath him will be unfarmable?

Oh. God has banished him from earth? And here again we see that it is possible to be hidden from God. Oh and who are these people that might find him? His Mum and Dad? maybe these other people are Cherubim, we know that they exist now, or possibly the other gods?

Whoever these others are God sees that it is necessary to mark Cain to protect him from them. I'm not certain how vengeance can be exacted sevenfold if the crime is murder.

The land of Nod: Outside of the presence of the LORD. God is not in Nod, does not go to Nod and cannot see Nod. also since Cain was banished from the face of the earth, is Nod not on the face of the Earth?

Where did Cain get a wife? Possible wives at this point are; His Mother, a female god (if such a thing exists), a female cherubim (if such a thing exists) or, and this is a stretch, if God offered an animal to Adam for companionship perhaps Cain took a fancy to an animal. At best it's not clear. Are we to believe that Cain, his wife (who is potentially his mother) and his infant son built an entire city?

Here we step over some uninteresting generations to get to Lamech. At this point I'm going to guess that there are more people around now, in fact I'll imagine an average of 6 children per couple per generation, That's probably a bit too much but it puts the total population of the world (Living in the City of Enoch, in the land of Nod, outside of Gods view) at this point in time at about 730

Righto.

Right, I think that this means that Jabal decided to leave the City of Enoch and live a nomadic lifestyle and keep some cows, I guess he took a wife since he is also a father.

and Jubal started a tribe containing all of the musicians? I guess there are no musicians that aren't from his tribe.

Tubalcain, at last a metallurgist... with a sister.

Lamech has killed a man, a young man at that and most likely a close relative.

OK, I'm guessing that this last line is from God, Is god the protector of murderers? If someone were to harm Cain after he killed his brother God protected him from being killed with the threat of vengeance on his killer and now he is doing the same for Lamech?

Six generations have passed which I guess could be as little as 72 to 100 years so I guess it's not impossible. It seems that Eve hasn't figured out the connection between being 'known' by Adam and her having a baby as for some reason she has credited God again.

Seth's child Enos is born and after that, for no reason I can fathom men begin to pray to the LORD, a god who walks around, often can't find people and protects murderers.





Adam and Eve have some children, Eve is so surprised by the first birth that she thinks God did it and her third birth is so late in life that senility might explain her conviction that God did it, she does not however implicate god in her second pregnancy.

Cain kills Abel because God doesn't like vegetables

God promises to avenge Cain if anyone should kill him, God apparently has a soft spot for murderers

God banishes Cain from the face of the earth but Cain only goes to Nod, God apparently doesn't notice that Cain has only gone to Nod because he can't see that far

Cain takes a wife that despite a few outlying possibilities was most likely his mother and has a son.

Cain's son Enoch builds a city called Enoch... A Whole city? really, that's some fast work.

A few generations pass culminating in Lamech, who kills a young man. God seems to like him even better than Cain.

Adam and Eve become geriatric grandparents to Enos, this seems to spark a wave of people praying to god who doesn't appear to have done anything noteworthy since lying to Adam.









Genesis 4So what have we learned from Genesis 4?Well, so so much.Next: Genesis 5: Begattin'!! And Enoch takes a long walk.