Exposition of Genesis 1-11

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Exposition of Genesis 1-11

• The Fall and its Aftermath
• Part IV
• Gen 417-26

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What Weve Covered So Far

• The Creation of the Heavens and the Earth Gen
  11 23
• The Creation of Man and Woman and the Garden of
  Eden Gen 24-25
• The Fall and its Aftermath Gen 31 416

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Genesis 417-26

• Cain had relations with his wife and she
  conceived, and gave birth to Enoch and he built
  a city, and called the name of the city Enoch,
  after the name of his son. Now to Enoch was born
  Irad, and Irad became the father of Mehujael, and
  Mehujael became the father of Methushael, and
  Methushael became the father of Lamech. Lamech
  took to himself two wives the name of the one

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Genesis 417-26 (cont)

• was Adah, and the name of the other, Zillah.
  Adah gave birth to Jabal he was the father of
  those who dwell in tents and have livestock. His
  brothers name was Jubal he was the father of
  all those who play the lyre and pipe. As for
  Zillah, she also gave birth to Tubal-cain, the
  forger of all implements of bronze and iron and
  the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah. Lamech said
  to his wives,

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Genesis 417-26 (cont)

• Adah and Zillah, Listen to my voice,
• You wives of Lamech, Give heed to my speech,
• For I have killed a man for wounding me
• And a boy for striking me
• If Cain is avenged sevenfold,
• Then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.

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Genesis 417-26 (cont)

• Adam had relations with his wife again and she
  gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, for, she
  said, God has appointed me another offspring in
  place of Abel, for Cain killed him. To Seth, to
  him also a son was born and he called his name
  Enosh. Then men began to call upon the name of
  the LORD.

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Context of Genesis 417-26

• OT
• Book of the Law
• Historical Prologue
• Account of the Very Good Heavens and Earth
• Introduction (24-25)
• Curse on the serpent and ground (31-24)
• Curse on Cain (41-26)

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Genesis 3 and 4

• Questions of Where? and What?
• Issue related to fruit
• Voice is heard
• Desiring and Ruling
• Discipline by banishing
• Cursing and the ground
• Cursed are you, Cursed is the ground
• Cursed are you from the ground
• Cf. Mathews, NAC, pg. 263

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Curse of Cain

• God says (11-12)
• No yield of strength when cultivating
• Be a vagrant and wanderer
• Cain responds (13-14)
• Driven from the ground, hidden from your face
• Vagrant and wanderer, Ill be killed!
• God responds (15)
• Ill keep you from being killed
• Cain leaves Gods presence (16)

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Genesis 417-18 Cain to Lamech

• Cains family begins in Nod
• Who was Cains wife? (cf. Gen 54 Lev 189)
• Who built the city?
• Cains descendants
• Enoch means initiation, dedication, founding
• Irad is very close to the Hebrew for city
• Difficult (for me, at least!) to learn much about
  other names

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Genesis 419 Lamechs Wives

• Polygamy
• Not what God planned (Gen 223-24)
• Legislated in the law (Deut 2115-17)
• Overlooked(?) in patriarchs and kings?
• Wives Names Emphasize the Physical?
• Ornament
• Shade or Shrill/Tinkle
• Cf. Song of Songs 214

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Genesis 420-22 Lamechs Sons

• Producers Hebrew ybl
• Father Founder and Teacher
• Jabal Animal Husbandry
• Jubal Music
• Tubal-cain Metalurgy (bronze and iron)
• Also a daughter! Naamah (Jewish tradition says
  she was Noahs wife!)
• Also Jewish legend that Lamech slew Cain

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Genesis 423-24 Lamechs Song

• Boy?
• Wound and Injure/strike (eye for an eye,
  tooth for a tooth, .)
• Lamech pays back much more!
• Lamechs either
• presumes upon God
• boasts of his own vengeance
• Cf. Matthew 1822

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Cainitic Civilization

• Civilizations attempt to thwart the effects of
  Gods curse is illustrated by the Cainitic
  economy as follows
• Urban life was preferred by many, instead of
  tilling the ground
• Nomadic life was preferred by others, instead of
  the settled dwelling place required for
  agriculture
• Cattle raising was inaugurated, probably because
  men had become meat eaters instead of being
  content with food grown from the earth
• Metal working and tools were developed to ease
  the toil of the curse
• Musical instruments were devised to mitigate the
  sorrow
• Polygamy was introduced, instead of adhering to
  the monogamous form of marriage
• Metallic weapons were invented, giving those who
  possessed them and were skilled in their use a
  great advantage over other men
• Poetic boasting, as noted here in Lamechs song
  and as often characteristic of human poetry and
  writing, asserted mans self-sufficiency and
  independence of God.
• Henry Morris, The Genesis Record, p. 147

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Genesis 4 Cain and Lamech

• Tubal-cain (qn)
• Jabals livestock (miqneh)
• Jubals music Dirge? (qinah)
• Lamech references Cain
• Kill Hebrew hrg
• Vengeance

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Genesis 425-26 Gods Grace

• Seth
• Sounds like Appointed/Granted (cf. v. 25)
• Means foundation
• God provides a son to replace Abel and who is not
  cursed like the murderer Cain
• Seth names his son Enosh
• Man in his frailty (e.g., Psa 903 Isa 137)
• Quite a contrast with Lamech

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Called on the name of the Lord

• Lit Then it was begun to call on the Name of
  the Lord
• Variety of uses
• God Himself does this (Ex. 3319 345-6)!
• Nations do or dont do this (Jer 1025 Zeph 39)
• Individuals do this (Gen 128 1613)
• Key for Gen 426 is Gen 417
• Cain had a son and named a city after him
• Seth had a son and Gods name was called upon

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Genesis 4 and 5

1. Adam
2. Seth
3. Enosh
4. Kenan
5. Mahalalel
6. Jared
7. Enoch
8. Methuselah
9. Lamech
10. Noah
11. Shem
12. Ham
13. Japeth

1. Adam
2. Cain
3. Enoch
4. Irad
5. Mehujael
6. Methushael
7. Lamech
8. Jabal
9. Jubal
10. Tubal-Cain

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Genealogy from Adam to Noah

• Gen 51-32