[1]
Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, "I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD."
[2] And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a tiller of the ground.
[3] In the course of time Cain brought to the LORD an offering of the fruit of the ground,
[4] and Abel brought of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions.
And the LORD had regard for Abel and his offering,
[5] but for Cain and his offering he had no regard.
So Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.
[6] The LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why has your countenance fallen?
[7] If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is couching at the door; its desire is for you, but you
must master it."
fruit of the ground opposite the best of a dead animal.
Apparently Cain had done something bad so in that state he chose fruit.
Parts of these lines are often quoted. Loaded sentences.
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[25]And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and called his name Seth, for she said, "God has appointed
for me another child instead of Abel, for Cain slew him."
[26] To Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time men began to call upon the name of the LORD.
There is information about each, which I did not include here. For me it is very difficult to remember the names and who each is. I still do not understand why people lived to be 500 years old.
Giants. Who are these beings from the spirit world?
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[9, 10] He was the only truly righteous man living on the earth at that time. He tried always to conduct his affairs according to
God's will. And he had three sons -- Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
[11] Meanwhile, the crime rate was rising rapidly across the earth, and, as seen by God, the world was rotten to the core.
[12, 13] As God observed how bad it was, and saw that all mankind was vicious and depraved, he said to Noah, "I have decided to destroy
all mankind; for the earth is filled with crime because of man. Yes, I will destroy mankind from the earth."
[14] Make a boat from reesinous wood, sealing it with tar; and construct decks and stalls throughout the ship.
[15] Make it 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.
[16] Construct a skylight all the way around the ship, eighteen inches below the roof; and make three decks inside the boat -- a bottom, middle and upper deck --
and put a door in the side.
[1]
Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.
[2] Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate; and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate;
[3] and seven pairs of the birds of the air also, male and female, to keep their kind alive upon the face of all the earth.
[4] For in seven days I will send rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground."
[5] And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
[6]
Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth.
In those days people became very old. It means that they had time to develop. When we develop in the good things it will result in a squared paradise. When people develop in the evil it will result in a Flood.
[1]
But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the
earth, and the waters subsided;
[2] the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained,
[3] and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters had abated;
[4] and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest upon the mountains of Ar'arat.
[5] And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the
mountains were seen.
[6]
At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made,
The mountains of Ararat are situated in Turkey. The ark is kept in ice and people came, searched and found!
Noah shows respect for God. Like Abel he knows what to do to show his gratitude.
In this way we are able 'to change' the
feelings of God.
To God it is obvious: mankind is hopeless without the help of Himself.
God blessed Noah and his sons and told them to have many children and to repopulate the earth.
[2, 3] All wild animals and birds and fish will be afraid of you, God told him; for I have placed them in your power, and they
are yours to use for food, in addition to grain and vegetables.
[4] But never eat animals unless their life-blood has been drained off.
[5, 6] And murder is forbidden. Man-killing animals must die, and any man who murders shall be killed; for to kill a man is to kill
one made like God.
[7] Yes, have many children and repopulate the earth and subdue it.
