The Passover and the offering which Followed It
These are the feasts of the Lord, in the narrower sense, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. This instruction was carried out with strict literalness in after-years, the exact date of the new moon in each month being fixed by the elders of the Jews and announced with great solemnity.
Verse Genesis 4:16. _THE LAND OF NOD_] As נוד _nod_ signifies the same as נד _sa_, a _vagabond_, some think this verse should be rendered, _And_ _Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, from the...
- Section IV - The Family of Adam - Cain and Abel 1. קין _qayı̂n_, Qain (Cain), “spear-shaft,” and קנה _qānah_, “set up, establish, gain, buy,” contain the biliteral root קן _qan_, “set up, erect, g...
CHAPTER 4 After the Fall and the Two Seeds _ 1. Cain and Abel (Genesis 4:1)_ 2. Their offerings (Genesis 4:3) 3. The divine remonstrance (Genesis 4:6) 4. Abel slain by his brother ...
The Story of Cain and Abel. This belongs to the J cycle of stories, but apparently not to the same stratum as Genesis 4:3, for it is assumed that the earth has a population from which Cain fears venge...
WENT OUT FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD. From the place of his public worship. Various allusions serve to show that after the exile of our parents from Eden there was. place of worship where God was w...
PRESENCE, &C, i.e. the Tabernacle placed by God for His worship (Genesis 3:24), whither offerings were brought (Genesis 4:3; Genesis 4:4). NOD. wandering. Compare...
_from the presence of_ Cf. 14, "from thy face." Cain going out "from the presence of" Jehovah, quits the land in which that presence was revealed. Jonah in fleeing from Palestine fled "from the presen...
WENT OUT FROM THE PRESENCE, &C.— From the altar of God, says Mr. Locke, after Bertram. "There was a divine glory, called by the Jews, the _Shechinah,_ which appeared from the beginning, (as I often re...
PART EIGHTEEN THE BEGINNINGS OF HUMAN CULTURE (Genesis 4:16-24) 1. _The Patriarchal Age_ The story of Cain and Abel introduces the Patriarchal form of government and worship. Family government is th...
_AND CAIN WENT OUT FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD, AND DWELT IN THE LAND OF NOD, ON THE EAST OF EDEN._ And Cain ... dwelt in the land of Nod. This name, derived from a cognate verb, to wander, go be a...
4:16 Nod, (l-16) Flight, wandering. see ver. 12, where it is translated 'fugitive.'...
WENT OUT FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD] from the land he had before inhabited. See on Genesis 4:14. NOD] The word, which means 'wandering,' is by some regarded as merely a figurative exprèssion for a...
CAIN AND ABEL. THE DESCENDANTS OF CAIN The narrative, which forms part of the Primitive document, impressively shows how sin, having once appeared, became hereditary in the human race, and speedily de...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 4 CAIN KILLS ABEL V1 Adam had sex with his wife Eve and she became *pregnant. Her son Cain was born. She said, ‘I have gained a man by the *Lord’...
‘Cain went away from the *Lord.’ God is everywhere. God was in Nod. So Cain did not escape from God when he went to Nod. But Cain left God out of his life. That is what this verse means. If we give ho...
CAIN WENT OUT FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD. — See Note on Genesis 3:8. Adam and his family probably worshipped with their faces towards the Paradise, and Cain, on migrating from the whole land of Ede...
וַ יֵּ֥צֵא קַ֖יִן מִ לִּ פְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה
CAIN AND ABEL Genesis 4:1 IT is not the purpose of this narrator to write the history of the world. It is not his purpose to write even the history of mankind. His object is to write the history of r...
CAIN'S LINE, AND ENOCH Genesis 4:12 "MY punishment is greater than I can bear," so felt Cain as soon as his passion had spent itself and the consequences of his wickedness became apparent-and so feel...
CAIN'S CAREER Genesis 4:9 God's first question to the soul is, “Adam, where art thou?” The next, “Where is thy brother?” We _are_ our brother's keepers. All related to us, within our reach, or needin...
The degeneration of the first man and woman was transmitted, the firstborn being manifestly an inheritor of the fallen nature of his parents. His mother named him Cain, intimating a hope that the seed...
_A fugitive, according to his sentence. Hebrew nod, which the Septuagint have taken for a proper name. "In the land of Naid, over against Eden," (Haydock) or in the fields of Nyse, in Hyrcania, to the...
There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attention may be profitably called as a starting point. We have to do with facts. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (n...
16._And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord_. Cain is said to have departed from the presence of God, because, whereas he had hitherto lived in the earth as in an abode belonging to God, now,...
But grace could work. The grace of a God above the evil of man, and Abel approaches Him by faith. Hereon follows the separation of the families of God and of the enemy, of the world and of faith. Abel...
AND CAIN WENT OUT FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD,.... Either from the place where the Lord was talking with him; or from the place where his glorious Majesty usually resided, where was some visible tok...
_And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden._ Ver. 16. _And Cain went out from the presence, &c._] But whither could he go from God's Spirit? o...
_And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt on the east of Eden_ Somewhere distant from the place where Adam and his religions family resided: distinguishing himself and his accursed g...
1 The birth, trade, and religion of Cain and Abel. 8 The murder of Abel. 9 The curse of Cain. 17 Enoch the first citie. 19 Lamech and his two wiues. 25 The birth of Seth, 26 and Enos. 1 AND Ada...
SECOND SECTION _Cain and Abel. The Cainites. The ungodly Worldliness of the First Civilization._ GENESIS 4:1-26 1And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived, and bare Cain [the gotten, or possessi...
CAIN AND ABEL Adam and Eve, having acquired a sinful nature, could only communicate the same nature to their children. Their firstborn was named Cain, which means "smith" or "fabricator," one who plan...
16-18 Cain cast off all fear of God, and attended no more on God's ordinances. Hypocritical professors, who dissemble and trifle with God, are justly left to themselves to do something grossly scanda...
i.e. He was banished from the place of God's special presence and habitation, from the society of his father, and of the only church which God had upon earth; AND DWELT IN THE LAND OF NOD, in the land...
& Genesis 5:1-32 As each section of the Book of Genesis opens before us, we are furnished with fresh evidence of the fact that we are travelling over, what a recent writer has well termed, "the seed-...
Genesis 4:16 Cain H7014 out H3318 (H8799) presence H6440 LORD H3068 dwelt H3427 (H8799) land H776 Nod...
‘And Cain went away from the place of Yahweh, and dwelt in the land of Nod, east of Eden.' The land of Nod (nod = ‘wandering') refers to the desert, the ‘land of wandering'. Man moves ever onward, eas...
THE STORY OF CAIN AND ABEL (GENESIS 4:1 TO GENESIS 5:1 A). Genesis 4:1. The Sin of Cain TABLET III It is quite clear that this section once existed separately from Genesis 2-3. The immediate and last...
NOD Literally, wandering....
Genesis 4 I. From the story of Cain we gather the following thoughts: I. Eve's disappointment at the birth of Cain should be a warning to all mothers. Over-estimate of children may be traced somet...
CONTENTS: First sons of Adam, Cain and Abel. Murder of Abel. First civilization. Birth of Seth. CHARACTERS: Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Seth. CONCLUSION: Attainment can never take the place of Atonement....
Genesis 4:1. _I have gotten._ קניתי _kaniti,_ from the root _kana,_ he possessed. The LXX have betrayed their ignorance of the Eternal Word, or Wisdom, by frequently rendering this word _created._ God...
_Cain went out from the presence of the Lord_ THE FUTURE OF A GOD-FORSAKEN LIFE I. THAT A GOD-FORSAKEN MAN IS NOT CUT OFF FROM THE MITIGATING INFLUENCES OF DOMESTIC LIFE. 1. Here the future of the...
_Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground_ THE STORY OF CAIN AND ABEL I. RELIGION ACTUATED MEN IN THE VERY EARLIEST TIMES. II. THE MERE NATURAL RELIGION IS ESSENTIALLY DEFECT...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 4:13 Cain will be alienated from both the ground and God. He will become A FUGITIVE AND A WANDERER ON THE EARTH. He fears that others will have such a dread of him that anyone...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Genesis 4:16_ THE FUTURE OF A GOD-FORSAKEN LIFE I. That a God-forsaken man is not cut off from the mitigating influences of domestic life. 1. _Here the future of...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Genesis 4:9_ THE BITTER CURSE WHICH SIN BRINGS UPON AN INDIVIDUAL LIFE We have been thoroughly educated in the nature and effects of sin by the sacred narrative, n...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 4:1 Exiled from Eden, o'er, canopied by grace, animated by hope, assured of the Divine forgiveness, and filled with a sweet peace, the first pair enter on their life experience of...
Lets turn to Genesis Chapter four. Adam and Eve have been expelled from the Garden of Eden because of their disobedience to God. And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said...
went. Genesis 4:14 Genesis 3:8 Exodus 20:18 2 Kings 13:23 2 Kings 24:20
SEEING CHRIST IN CAIN AND ABEL Genesis 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Cain and Abel came by natural generation. The only human beings God ever created were Adam and Eve. They were created with the power...
And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt on the east of Eden — Somewhere distant from the place were Adam and his religious family resided: distinguishing himself and his accursed ge...