Genesis 4:10-12 KJV 10 And He (God) said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood (Abel’s) crieth unto me from the ground. 11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand; 12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Genesis 4:16 KJV And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
“Nod” is the Hebrew root of the verb “to wander”. Therefore, to dwell in the land of Nod can mean to live a wandering life. The Land of Nod is only mentioned on
ce in the Bible. There is no consensus among Bible Scholars as to what was the exact location of the Land of Nod.
Genesis 4:17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
Who was Cain’s wife? The simple answer is that Cain married one of his sisters or another close relation, like a niece. Genesis 5:4 reveals that Adam and Eve “had sons and daughters” (besides Cain, Abel, and Seth).
The Bible does forbid marriage between close relations. However, the laws against marrying family members was first introduced as part of the Mosaic covenant, some 2,500 years after God created Adam and Eve. Due in part to genetic corruption and damage, these laws were necessary to help protect offspring from mutations shared by both parents.
You could relate Cain’s being sent away from the presence of God with someone who has been removed from the church; sent out into the world. God had banished Cain to a life of wandering. Cain decided to build a city in the Land of Nod, somewhere east of Eden. Was it the “first city built” by a descendant of Adam?? Cain named the city after his first son-Enoch.
Genesis 4:18 To Enoch was born Irad; and Irad begot Mehujael, and Mehujael begot Methushael, and Methushael begot Lamech.
There are rather strange similarities in the names of the sons of Cain (who is evil) and the sons of Seth. If you will look at the line of names in chapter 4, the genealogy reads: Adam, Cain, Enoch, Irad, Mehujael, Mathusael, and Lamech.
In chapter 5, the genealogy of Seth (who is righteous) is: Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, and Lamech. These names are so similar, if not careful we could confuse the two.
The Bible mentions two different men by the name of Lamech, both in the book of Genesis. The first Lamech was the son of Methushael, and the second Lamech was the son of Methuselah, – who is In the bloodline of the Son of Man, Jesus. Although the men shared a name and had fathers with names that sound very much alike, that is where their similarities end.
Lamech son of Methushael was Cain’s great-great-great grandson. He followed Cain’s disobedient and murderous ways. Lamech married two wives—the Bible’s first mention of polygamy—and he committed murder. Another man struck and wounded Lamech in some way, and Lamech killed him. Afterward, he boasted of his sin to his two wives and reveled in that he suffered no consequences: “ If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”
Genesis 4:19 And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
In Genesis 1 and 2, the creation of the first human beings introduce an ideal for marriage that portrays heterosexual and monogamous marriage as the will of God for his creation. This design continues to be the ideal throughout the Bible.
Genesis 4:23-24 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. 24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
1 John 3:12 KJV Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
Jude 1:11 KJV Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.