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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...
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- 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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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4:16 Nod, (l-16) Flight, wandering. see ver. 12, where it is
translated 'fugitive.'...
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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...
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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...
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‘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...
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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’...
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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...
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וַ יֵּ֥צֵא קַ֖יִן מִ לִּ פְנֵ֣י
יְהוָ֑ה
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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his wife, journeyed toward the east of the land of Eden, where the
garden of the Lord was situated. He cut himself off from all
intercourse with the Lord and with His people....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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& 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-...
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Genesis 4:16 Cain H7014 out H3318 (H8799) presence H6440 LORD H3068
dwelt H3427 (H8799) land H776 Nod...
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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...
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‘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...
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NOD
Literally, wandering....
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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...
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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....
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...