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| CAIN MURDERS ABEL |
"And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him." ~ Genesis 4:8 ~
Cain murders his brother and G-d's punishments are that 1) his crops will not be as plentiful, 2) he will be a fugitive, and 3) he will be a vagabond.
So, did that happen?
Not exactly. Actually, not at all.
It turns out that Cain takes off towards the east of Eden and comes upon the city of Nod.
Really?
A city outside the Garden [of Eden]? Where the frak did that place come from?
And Nod is already inhabited? With women?
How the frak can that be?
Cain marries a woman and has a son he names Enoch. Then, Cain takes up another vocation as a General Contractor and proceeds to build a city which he names after his son Enoch. (So much for farming as well as that whole "wandering about" thing that a vagabond would do!) -- Ch. 4, vs. 16
Finally, there's that other small matter of Cain's punishment to include being a fugitive.
According to the Bible's account, Cain feared that he would be killed by everyone who came across him (did he think he could die more than once? just kidding), and he whines to G-d about it . . . So, G-d, in his righteous anger, puts a mark upon Cain's forehead so that no one will kill him or else face the righteous justice of G-d . . .
So the person who would kill Cain (who had only murdered one person albeit that person was his brother) would receive consequences that were to be 7 times more! Ch. 4, vs. 14-15
Really?
How utterly awful would it be to have 7 wives and 7 sons for murdering one man?
And then, there is that pesky matter of "from whom" then was Cain to be running from since he was not to be killed by anyone?
If anything, murdering someone brought a person wealth and good fortune. Not the kind of life we imagine a fugitive would have lived.
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