Genesis 4-11Genesis 4-11

© John Stevenson, 2012

Genesis 3Genesis 3Opens with Adam and

Eve in the garden

Genesis 4Genesis 4They give birth to Cain and Abel outside the

garden

As the chapter opens, Adam and Eve are

innocent

As the chapter begins, Cain and Abel are

sinners

Satan comes to the woman and speaks

with her openly

Satan is tempting Cain in the background

where we cannot see him.

Genesis 3Genesis 3 Genesis 4Genesis 4Adam and Eve’s sin

was in disobeying God by eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge

of good and evil

Cain’s sin is threefold:

• He offers an unacceptable sacrifice

• Anger and jealousy

• Murders his brother

God seeks out Adam and Eve and

interrogates them until they admit their guilt

God seeks out Cain and interrogates him, but he still refuses to acknowledge his guilt

Genesis 3Genesis 3 Genesis 4Genesis 4The earth is cursed as a result of Adam’s sin

The earth no longer yields it increase for

Cain

The chapter ends in Adam and Eve’s

expulsion from the garden

The chapter ends in Cain’s banishment to

the land of Nod

In his fictional book, East of Eden, John In his fictional book, East of Eden, John Steinbeck calls this chapter, “The symbol Steinbeck calls this chapter, “The symbol

story of the human soul.”story of the human soul.”

Genesis 4:1Genesis 4:1Now the man had relations

with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, “I have gotten a manchild with the help of the LORD.”

(hn"q')QanahQanah

(!yIq;)QayinQayin

CainCain Jesus ChristJesus ChristBrought an unworthy

sacrificeHe was the worthy

sacrifice

He offered a sacrifice that did not involve the

shedding of blood

He was the sacrifice who shed His own

blood

He because angry and jealous

He prayed for the forgiveness of those who wronged Him

He murdered his brother

He gave His life to make us His brothers

Genesis 4:2Genesis 4:2Again, she gave birth to his

brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of flocks, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

(lb,h')HabelHabel ““Empty”Empty”

Genesis 4:3Genesis 4:3So it came about in the

course of time that Cain brought an offering to the LORD of the fruit of the ground.

Genesis 4:4-5Genesis 4:4-5Abel, on his part also brought

of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel and for his offering; 5 but for Cain and for his offering He had no regard. So Cain became very angry and his countenance fell.

Genesis 4:6-7Genesis 4:6-7Then the LORD said to Cain,

“Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? 7 If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it.”

Genesis 4:8Genesis 4:8Cain told Abel his brother.

And it came about when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.

Cain offers a wrong

sacrifice

Cain’s SelfWill

God rejectsCain’s

sacrifice

Cain’scountenance

falls

Cain Becomes

angry

God warnsCain

Cain murdersAbel

Cain’sanger turnsto jealousy

Genesis 4:9Genesis 4:9Then the LORD said to Cain,

“Where is Abel your brother?” And he said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”

Genesis 4:10Genesis 4:10He said, "What have you

done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to Me from the ground.”

...and to Jesus, the mediator of ...and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the a new covenant, and to the

sprinkled blood, which speaks sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel. better than the blood of Abel.

(Hebrews 12:24)(Hebrews 12:24)..

Genesis 4:11-12Genesis 4:11-12“Now you are cursed from

the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. 12 When you cultivate the ground, it will no longer yield its strength to you; you will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth.”

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Genesis 4:13-14Genesis 4:13-14Cain said to the LORD, “My

punishment is too great to bear! 14 Behold, You have driven me this day from the face of the ground; and from Your face I will be hidden, and I will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”

Genesis 4:15Genesis 4:15So the LORD said to him,

“Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” And the LORD appointed a sign for Cain, so that no one finding him would slay him.

Genesis 4:16Genesis 4:16Then Cain went out from the

presence of the LORD, and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

Genesis 3Genesis 3The Serpent comes and deceives Eve

Genesis 4Genesis 4God warns Cain that

sin is crouching at the door

Adam and Eve eat of the forbidden fruit

Cain murders his brother

Adam and Eve begin the cycle of sin

Cain continues the cycle of sin

God comes in the cool of the day to seek out and question Adam

and Eve

God comes to seek out and question Cain

about his brother

Genesis 3Genesis 3Adam and Eve are banished from the

garden

Genesis 4Genesis 4Cain is banished to a

foreign land

Genesis 4:17Genesis 4:17Cain had relations with his

wife and she conceived, and gave birth to Enoch; and he built a city, and called the name of the city Enoch, after the name of his son.

Genesis 4:19Genesis 4:19Lamech took to himself two

wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other, Zillah.

Genesis 4:20-22Genesis 4:20-22Adah gave birth to Jabal; he

was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock. 21 His brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe. 22 As for Zillah, she also gave birth to Tubal-cain, the forger of all implements of bronze and iron; and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

Genesis 4:23-24Genesis 4:23-24Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, Listen to my voice, You wives of Lamech, Give heed to my speech, For I have killed a man for wounding me; And a boy for striking me;24 If Cain is avenged sevenfold, Then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”

Genesis 4:25Genesis 4:25Adam had relations with his

wife again; and she gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, for, she said, “God has appointed me another offspring in place of Abel, for Cain killed him.”

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SethSeth

Genesis 4:26Genesis 4:26To Seth, to him also a son

was born; and he called his name Enosh. Then men began to call upon the name of the LORD.

Genesis 4Genesis 4Descendants

of Cain

A picture of those

following in the way of

Cain

Genesis 5Genesis 5Descendants

of Seth

A picture of those

descended through Seth

Genesis 6Genesis 6Intermarriage of sons of God and

daughters of men

A picture of moral

wickedness

Genealogy FormulaGenealogy Formula

• His name.

• His age at the birth of his first son.

• The length of his remaining life (along with a statement that he begot other sons and daughters).

• His age at his death.

There are only three variations from this There are only three variations from this formula: Adam (5:3), Enoch (5:22-24) and formula: Adam (5:3), Enoch (5:22-24) and

Lamech (5:28-29).Lamech (5:28-29).

Line of CainLine of Cain Line of SethLine of SethEve named Cain as

she says, “I have gotten a manchild with the help of the LORD”

(4:1).

Adam called his name Seth (5:3).

Cain murdered his brother Abel (4:8).

Seth was appointed to take Abel’s place

(4:25).

Cain’s son was named Enoch - “Dedicated”

(4:17).

Seth’s son was named Enosh - “Mortal” (5:6).

Line of CainLine of Cain Line of SethLine of SethLamech was the

seventh from Adam through Cain; he killed

a young man.

Enoch was the seventh from Adam

through Seth; he walked with God and

did not die.

The Age of HumanityThe Age of Humanity

• James Ussher (1581-1658) James Ussher (1581-1658) reckoned a chronology that reckoned a chronology that put creation at Sunday, put creation at Sunday, October 23, 4004 B.C.October 23, 4004 B.C.

• Contradicted by archaeologyContradicted by archaeology

• Assumes no gaps in Assumes no gaps in genealogygenealogy

• Stylized genealogiesStylized genealogies

Three sonsThree sons

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Three sonsThree sons

TerahTerah

Ten

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100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

900

Adam

Noah

Enoch

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Genesis 5:21-22Genesis 5:21-22Enoch lived sixty-five years,

and became the father of Methuselah. 22 Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:23-24Genesis 5:23-24So all the days of Enoch

were three hundred and sixty-five years. 24 Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

LamechLamech EnochEnochSeventh from Adam

through CainSeventh from Adam

through Seth

He killed a man and wrote a boastful song

of his deed.

He walked with God and did not die.

Genesis 5:28-29Genesis 5:28-29Lamech lived one hundred

and eighty-two years, and became the father of a son. 29 Now he called his name Noah, saying, “This one will give us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands arising from the ground which the LORD has cursed.”

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Genesis 6:1-2Genesis 6:1-2Now it came about, when men

began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, 2 that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.

Genesis 6:3Genesis 6:3Then the LORD said, “My Spirit

shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”

Genesis 6:4Genesis 6:4The Nephilim were on the earth

in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

Sons of God refer toSons of God refer toAngelsAngels

• Septuagint supports this interpretation

• Sons of God are angels in Job

• Angels in heaven do not marry, but these angels were not in heaven

• The resulting offspring produced giants

• Supported in Apocryphal book of Enoch as well as in Jude 6.

Sons of God refer toSons of God refer toDescendants of SethDescendants of Seth

• Preceding chapters set forth contrast of two lines

• Men began to call on the name of the Lord

• It is mankind that is punished in the flood

• Sonship is a common theme in the Old Testament

• Marriage of godly seed to ungodly people is a common theme in Genesis

Sons of God refer toSons of God refer toKings and RulersKings and Rulers

• Aramaic lends itself to this interpretation

• Elohim refers to human judges in Ex 21:6; 22:8-9 and in Psalm 82:1, 6

• Similar use in Babylonian texts

• Kings often referred to as Elohim in east

• Actions paralleled in Lamech

• Nephilim refer to fallen ones

Genesis 6:5-6Genesis 6:5-6Then the LORD saw that the

wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 The LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

Genesis 6:7-8Genesis 6:7-8The LORD said, “I will blot out

man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

Noah’s three sons (6:10)

Noah’s three sons (9:18)

Covenant with Noah (6:18)• Promise to destroy the earth with a flood

Covenant with Noah (9:8-17)• Promise not to destroy the earth with a flood

Command to take food (6:21)

Command not to eat blood (9:14)

Noah & Family enter the ark (7:1)

Noah & Family come out of ark (8:14)

Flood on the earth (7:11 – 8:13)

Genesis 6:14Genesis 6:14Make for yourself an ark of

gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch.

tb;TeSame word is used for Same word is used for

the ark into which the the ark into which the baby Moses was placedbaby Moses was placed

Genesis 6:15Genesis 6:15This is how you shall make it:

the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

The Lord shuts the door and it rains 40 days and nights (7:15-16)

At the end of 40 days Noah opens the window (8:6)

Waters increase until the mountains are covered (7:18-20)

Waters decrease until the mountain become visible (8:4-5)

150 days waters prevail (7:21-24)

150 days waters abate (8:3)

God Remembers Noah (8:1)

Genesis 6:16Genesis 6:16You shall make a window for

the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top; and set the door of the ark in the side of it; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks.

Genesis 7:11-12Genesis 7:11-12In the six hundredth year of

Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened. 12 The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

Universal languageUniversal language

• The waters lifted the ark up above the earth (7:17).

• The waters prevailed and increased upon the earth (7:18).

• The waters prevailed exceeding upon the earth (7:19).

• All the high hills were covered (9:19).

• The water rose 15 cubits above the mountains (7:20).

Universal languageUniversal language

• All flesh died upon the earth (7:21).

• The waters prevailed for 150 days (7:24).

Universal FloodThe Biblical account says that the waters covered the whole

earth.

Local FloodThe word aretz

(“earth”) is often used to describe a local

area.

The Biblical language goes out of its way to

use language of totality.

The account is given from the viewpoint of

the narrator is from his perspective the

destruction is total.

Universal FloodThe size of the ark

indicates that this was no local flood.

Local FloodThe size of the ark is

not related to the extent of the flood.

The purpose of the ark was punishment of world-wide sin. In a

local flood some could have escaped.

God could have made certain all flesh was destroyed without flooding the entire

globe.

There are world-wide traces of a flood.

The evidence is questioned as to its

universality.

Genesis 8:1Genesis 8:1But God remembered Noah

and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided.

Genesis 6God warns

Noah

The ark is built

Noah building the ark

Genesis 7God delivers

Noah

The ark is used to save Noah from the flood

Noah in the ark

Genesis 8God

remembers Noah

The ark comes to rest in the mountains of

Ararat

Noah coming out of the ark

The earth filled with violence

The earth filled with water

Noah to go out & fill the earth

Genesis 8:4Genesis 8:4In the seventh month, on the

seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.

What is the significance of the What is the significance of the various sorts of birds being sent various sorts of birds being sent

out?out?

Genesis 8:21Genesis 8:21The LORD smelled the soothing

aroma; and the LORD said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man's heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done.”

Genesis 8:22Genesis 8:22“While the earth remains,

Seedtime and harvest,

And cold and heat,

And summer and winter,

And day and night

Shall not cease.”

Genesis 9:1Genesis 9:1And God blessed Noah and his

sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.”

Genesis 9:3-5Genesis 9:3-5Every moving thing that is alive

shall be food for you; I give all to you, as I gave the green plant. 4 Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. 5 Surely I will require your lifeblood; from every beast I will require it. And from every man, from every man’s brother I will require the life of man.”

Genesis 9:6Genesis 9:6“Whoever sheds man’s blood,By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God He made man.”

Genesis 9:8-10Genesis 9:8-10Then God spoke to Noah and to

his sons with him, saying, 9 “Now behold, I Myself do establish My covenant with you, and with your descendants after you; 10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.”

Noah, his descendants,

and every living creature

Genesis 9:11Genesis 9:11“I establish My covenant with

you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth.”

Genesis 9:12-13Genesis 9:12-13God said, “This is the sign of the

covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations; 13 I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.”

Genesis 9:18Genesis 9:18Now the sons of Noah who

came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan.

Genesis 9:20-22Genesis 9:20-22Then Noah began farming and

planted a vineyard. 21 He drank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent. 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

Genesis 9:23Genesis 9:23But Shem and Japheth took a

garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned away, so that they did not see their father's nakedness.

Genesis 9:24-25Genesis 9:24-25When Noah awoke from his

wine, he knew what his youngest son had done to him.

25 So he said, “Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants He shall be to his brothers.”

Genesis 9:26-27Genesis 9:26-27

“Blessed be the LORD, The God of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant. 27 May God enlarge Japheth, And let him dwell in the tents of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant.”

He also said,

Genesis 9:26-27Genesis 9:26-27

“Blessed be the LORD, The God of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant. 27 May God enlarge Japheth, And let him dwell in the tents of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant.”

He also said,

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Genesis 9:26-27Genesis 9:26-27

“Blessed be the LORD, The God of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant. 27 May God enlarge Japheth, And let him dwell in the tents of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant.”

He also said,

To whom does the pronoun refer?

27 May God enlarge Japheth, And let him dwell in the tents of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant.”

To whom does the pronoun refer?

AdamPlaced into a Garden

Noah

Results in a curse

Results in a lasting division of the seed

Followed by a genealogy to demonstrate the division

Plants a Garden

Eats the fruit of the tree

Drinks of the fruit of the vine

Results in recognizing his nakedness

Results in lying naked in his tent

If we do not count the three If we do not count the three sons of Noah, there are a total sons of Noah, there are a total

of 70 names in this table.of 70 names in this table.

What is significant What is significant about this number?about this number?

……all the persons of the house of all the persons of the house of Jacob, who came to Egypt, Jacob, who came to Egypt, were were

seventy (Genesis 46:27)seventy (Genesis 46:27)

When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,When He separated the sons of man,He set the boundaries of the peoplesAccording to the number of the sons of Israel.9 For the Lord’s portion is His people,Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance. (Deuteronomy 32:7-9).

Israel is a microcosm Israel is a microcosm of the worldof the world

Jesus is the “better Israel”Jesus is the “better Israel” who came to save the world who came to save the world

Genesis 11:1Genesis 11:1Now the whole earth used the

same language and the same words.

It came about as they

journeyed east, that

they found a plain in the

land of Shinar and

settled there (Genesis

11:2).

Genesis 11:3Genesis 11:3They said to one another,

“Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

Genesis 11:4Genesis 11:4They said, “Come, let us build

for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”

Genesis 11:5Genesis 11:5The LORD came down to see

the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

Genesis 11:6-7Genesis 11:6-7The LORD said, “Behold, they

are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another's speech.”

Genesis 11:8Genesis 11:8So the LORD scattered them

abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city.

Genesis 11:9Genesis 11:9Therefore its name was called

Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.

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Genesis 5AdamSeth

EnoshKenan

MahalelJaredEnoch

MethuselahLamech

NoahShem Ham Japheth

Genesis 11Shem

ArphachshadCainanShelahEberPelegReu

SerugNahorTerah

Abram Nahor Haran

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2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Genesis 11 not a Strict Genesis 11 not a Strict ChronologyChronology

• The Number of Years is not Totaled.The Number of Years is not Totaled.

• The Name and Years of Cainan are The Name and Years of Cainan are Absent from the Hebrew Text.Absent from the Hebrew Text.

• Genesis 5 and Genesis 11 are Genesis 5 and Genesis 11 are Symmetrical in Form.Symmetrical in Form.

• The earth was divided in the days of Peleg The earth was divided in the days of Peleg (Genesis 10:25).(Genesis 10:25).

• Ancestral connections between people in Ancestral connections between people in Biblical genealogies are often abridgedBiblical genealogies are often abridged

Genesis 4-5

Men began to call upon the name of

the Lord (Genesis

4:26).

Genesis 11

Let us make for ourselves

a name (Genesis

11:4).

Genesis 12

I will bless you, and

make your name great (Genesis

12:2).