Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 4:1

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 4:1 - 4:1

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 4:1 - 4:1

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4:2 - 4:2
4:3 - 4:3
4:4 - 4:4
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4:8 - 4:8
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4:10 - 4:10
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4:26 - 4:26

Gen 4:1-26. Birth of Cain and Abel.

Eve said, I have gotten a man from the Lord - that is, “by the help of the Lord” - an expression of pious gratitude - and she called him Cain, that is, “a possession,” as if valued above everything else; while the arrival of another son reminding Eve of the misery she had entailed on her offspring, led to the name Abel, that is, either weakness, vanity (Psa 39:5), or grief, lamentation. Cain and Abel were probably twins; and it is thought that, at this early period, children were born in pairs (Gen 5:4) [Calvin].