Genesis 4:17. Urban Origins

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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.”  

People often wonder about who Adam and Eve’s children married, but the logical answer is obvious: each other! It seems like a good possibility that Cain married before he killed Abel, because what sister would have consented to be his wife otherwise? Of course Cain could have also kidnapped or blackmailed a sister to be his wife. Did Cain’s wife live in fear of her brother and husband all of her days? The text doesn’t elaborate on such curiosities, but it does intimate that Cain himself lived in fear, for when his first child was born, he built a city, showing his continued disbelief God’s promise of protection, and curse of vengeance against anyone who might lift his hand to kill Cain. Cain’s faithlessness in this promise is evidenced in his decision to build the first city on the planet. Worse yet, Cain’s city was an act of open defiance and rebellion against God, who had declared that Cain was to be a fugitive and a vagabond. He was not to settle in one place, but to be a nomad and wanderer. Today, cities continue to be hotbeds not only of crime and vice, but of human pride, arrogance and rebellion against God. 

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Ezra James
The Word of God is bread from heaven. God sent it, but we must gather it, appreciate it, digest it, and live by it. These days it is increasingly scarce. Many are starving for it and don't know it because they keep feasting on bad bread that doesn't satisfy. But if we would learn to carefully gather up the fragments of the True, Heavenly Bread of Life, we would always enjoy a feast of crumbs, because even God's crumbs are miracles mighty to save (Mark 7:24-30). ESPAÑOL: La Palabra de Dios es pan del cielo. Dios lo envió, pero debemos recogerlo, apreciarlo, digerirlo y vivir por él. Hoy en día es cada vez más escaso. Muchos están muriendo de hambre por falta de él sin saberlo porque se alimentan de pan falso que no satisface. Pero si aprendiéramos a recoger cuidadosamente los fragmentos del Verdadero Pan Celestial, Pan de Vida, siempre disfrutaríamos de un banquete de migajas, porque hasta las migajas de Dios son milagros poderosos para salvar (Marcos 7:24-30).