KJB: Genesis Chapters 4 – 11

This section of the book starts off by talking about Adam and Eve and the children they bore. Cain was the first child to be born then came Abel. Both brothers were good at their own craft, that being farming for Cain and herding for Abel. Both brothers made sacrifices to God but God favored Abel’s sacrifices more so Cain killed Able making Abel the first man to die. Cain then lied to God about what transpired with his brother Able leading God to mark Cain with a curse. This curse made it so he could never farm the land as well as it made him a wanderer, “When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be” (Genesis 4:12). Cain went on to have more kids and so did the other children of Adam and Eve until they began stretching the face of the earth. It might have been because the decedents of Cain were cursed and possibly evil but God felt that man was evil and needed to be destroyed, “God saw the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” (Genesis 6:5). This alienation between man and God was most likely caused because of Cain and his decedents because Cain seems to be symbolic of the evil that was birthed into the world and after many generations God realized that this evil was not going to change so he decided to create a fresh start. But to no avail because as it tends to, history repeated itself and Canaan son of Ham was cursed by Noah for the evil committed by his father.