RE: Cain and Abel: Explanation Please. Pretty Pretty Please!
September 4, 2014 at 9:03 pm
(This post was last modified: September 4, 2014 at 9:22 pm by Jenny A.)
(September 4, 2014 at 8:24 pm)Natachan Wrote: I always thought it was because Cain's line was a dead end. He isn't listed in the genealogy because his line dies out.
Since Noah is not of his line, I would assume so. Noah and his sons are after all supposed to be the sole survivors of the flood.
Though that's a little odd since Jabal of Cain's line is supposed to be the ancestor of "those who live in tents and amidst herds" and Jubal his brother the ancestor of "all who play the lyre and pipe" (Genesis 4:20) and clearly people who did both were around after the flood. The Hebrews did both.
Hmmm yet another Biblical inconsistency. Fancy that.
By the way, speaking of those genealogies Methusael Cain's great-great-grandson and Seth's great many many times great grandson Methuselah are apparently both the father of Lamech. They are both descendants of Enoch too. Either that or there were two Lamechs and two Enochs.
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