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he was the father of those who dwell in tents and <i>have</i> livestock. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/4-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>His brothers name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/4-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>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. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/4-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>Lamech said to his wives,<br>         Adah and Zillah,<br>         Listen to my voice,<br>         You wives of Lamech,<br>         Give heed to my speech,<br>         For I have killed a man for wounding me;<br>         And a boy for striking me; <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/4-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>If Cain is avenged sevenfold,<br>         Then Lamech seventy-sevenfold. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/4-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>Adam had relations with his wife again; and she gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, for, <i>she said,</i> God has appointed me another offspring in place of Abel, for Cain killed him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/4-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>To Seth, to him also a son was born; and he called his name Enosh. Then <i>men</i> began to call upon the name of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/genesis/4.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents and have cattle.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/genesis/4.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And Ada brought forth Jabel: who was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of herdsmen. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/genesis/4.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And Adah bore Jabal: he was the father of those who dwell in tents, and breed cattle.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/genesis/4.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents and have cattle.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/genesis/4.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And Adah bore Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/genesis/4.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/genesis/4.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And Adah beareth Jabal, he hath been father of those inhabiting tents and purchased possessions;<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_k/what_crouches_at_the_door.htm">What Crouches at the Door</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'If thou doest not well, sin croucheth at the door: and unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.'--GENESIS iv. 7 (R. V.). These early narratives clothe great moral and spiritual truths in picturesque forms, through which it is difficult for us to pierce. In the world's childhood God spoke to men as to children, because there were no words then framed which would express what we call abstract conceptions. They had to be shown by pictures. But these early men, simple and childlike <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_k/what_crouches_at_the_door.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lee/sermons_on_various_important_subjects/sermon_xxii_parental_duties_considered.htm">Parental Duties Considered and Urged. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the Spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed." Some general observations on the importance of education, especially parental education, were made in the preceding discourse. We are now to consider the ways and means by which parents, are to seek a godly seed. Only general directions can here be given. Much will be left to the discretion of those concerned. Some of the principal parental duties are, Dedication of their children <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lee/sermons_on_various_important_subjects/sermon_xxii_parental_duties_considered.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Andrew Lee et al—</span><span class="citation2">Sermons on Various Important Subjects</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/hengstenberg/christology_of_the_old_testament/the_blessings_of_noah_upon.htm">The Blessings of Noah Upon Shem and Japheth. (Gen. Ix. 18-27. )</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Ver. 20. "And Noah began and became an husbandman, and planted vineyards."--This does not imply that Noah was the first who began to till the ground, and, more especially, to cultivate the vine; for Cain, too, was a tiller of the ground, Gen. iv. 2. The sense rather is, that Noah, after the flood, again took up this calling. Moreover, the remark has not an independent import; it serves only to prepare the way for the communication of the subsequent account of Noah's drunkenness. By this remark, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/hengstenberg/christology_of_the_old_testament/the_blessings_of_noah_upon.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—</span><span class="citation2">Christology of the Old Testament</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newton/olney_hymns/hymn_2_cain_and_abel.htm">Cain and Abel. Gen 4:3-8</a><br></span><span class="snippet">CAIN and ABEL. Gen 4:3-8 When Adam fell he quickly lost God's image, which he once possessed: See All our nature since could boast In Cain, his first-born Son, expressed! The sacrifice the Lord ordained In type of the Redeemer's blood, Self-righteous reas'ning Cain disdained, And thought his own first-fruits as good. Yet rage and envy filled his mind, When, with a fallen, downcast look, He saw his brother favor find, Who GOD's appointed method took. By Cain's own hand, good Abel died, Because <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/newton/olney_hymns/hymn_2_cain_and_abel.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Newton—</span><span class="citation2">Olney Hymns</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bernard/some_letters_of_saint_bernard_abbot_of_clairvaux/letter_xxiv_circa_a_d_1126.htm">Letter xxiv (Circa A. D. 1126) to Oger, Regular Canon</a><br></span><span class="snippet">To Oger, Regular Canon [34] Bernard blames him for his resignation of his pastoral charge, although made from the love of a calm and pious life. None the less, he instructs him how, after becoming a private person, he ought to live in community. To Brother Oger, the Canon, Brother Bernard, monk but sinner, wishes that he may walk worthily of God even to the end, and embraces him with the fullest affection. 1. If I seem to have been too slow in replying to your letter, ascribe it to my not having <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bernard/some_letters_of_saint_bernard_abbot_of_clairvaux/letter_xxiv_circa_a_d_1126.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Bernard of Clairvaux—</span><span class="citation2">Some Letters of Saint Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/jerome/the_principal_works_of_st_jerome/letter_xxxv_from_pope_damasus.htm">Letter xxxv. From Pope Damasus. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Damasus addresses five questions to Jerome with a request for information concerning them. They are: 1. What is the meaning of the words "Whosoever slayeth Cain vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold"? (Gen. iv. 5.) 2. If God has made all things good, how comes it that He gives charge to Noah concerning unclean animals, and says to Peter, "What God hath cleansed that call not thou common"? (Acts x. 15.) 3. How is Gen. xv. 16, "in the fourth generation they shall come hither again," to be reconciled <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/jerome/the_principal_works_of_st_jerome/letter_xxxv_from_pope_damasus.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">St. Jerome—</span><span class="citation2">The Principal Works of St. Jerome</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/jerome/the_principal_works_of_st_jerome/letter_xxxvi_to_pope_damasus.htm">Letter xxxvi. To Pope Damasus. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Jerome's reply to the foregoing. For the second and fourth questions he refers Damasus to the writings of Tertullian, Novatian, and Origen. The remaining three he deals with in detail. Gen. iv. 15, he understands to mean "the slayer of Cain shall complete the sevenfold vengeance which is to be wreaked upon him." Exodus xiii. 18, he proposes to reconcile with Gen. xv. 16, by supposing that in the one place the tribe of Levi is referred to, in the other the tribe of Judah. He suggests, however, that <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/jerome/the_principal_works_of_st_jerome/letter_xxxvi_to_pope_damasus.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">St. Jerome—</span><span class="citation2">The Principal Works of St. Jerome</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/leo/writings_of_leo_the_great/chapter_x_how_the_kindly-disposed.htm">How the Kindly-Disposed and the Envious are to be Admonished. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">(Admonition 11.) Differently to be admonished are the kindly-disposed and the envious. For the kindly-disposed are to be admonished so to rejoice in what is good in others as to desire to have the like as their own; so to praise with affection the deeds of their neighbours as also to multiply them by imitation, lest in this stadium of the present life they assist at the contest of others as eager backers, but inert spectators, and remain without a prize after the contest, in that they toiled not <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/leo/writings_of_leo_the_great/chapter_x_how_the_kindly-disposed.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Leo the Great—</span><span class="citation2">Writings of Leo the Great</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/gregory/the_epistles_of_saint_gregory_the_great/epistle_cxxii_to_rechared_king.htm">Epistle cxxii. To Rechared, King of the visigoths . </a><br></span><span class="snippet">To Rechared, King of the Visigoths [82] . Gregory to Rechared, &c. I cannot express in words, most excellent son, how much I am delighted with thy work and thy life. For on hearing of the power of a new miracle in our days, to wit that the whole nation of the Goths has through thy Excellency been brought over from the error of Arian heresy to the firmness of a right faith, one is disposed to exclaim with the prophet, This is the change wrought by the right hand of the Most High (Ps. lxxvi. 11 [83] <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/gregory/the_epistles_of_saint_gregory_the_great/epistle_cxxii_to_rechared_king.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Gregory the Great—</span><span class="citation2">the Epistles of Saint Gregory the Great</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kent/the_origin_and_permanent_value_of_the_old_testament/vi_the_growth_of_the.htm">The Growth of the Old Testament Prophetic Histories</a><br></span><span class="snippet">[Sidenote: Analogies between the influences that produced the two Testaments] Very similar influences were at work in producing and shaping both the Old and the New Testaments; only in the history of the older Scriptures still other forces can be distinguished. Moreover, the Old Testament contains a much greater variety of literature. It is also significant that, while some of the New Testament books began to be canonized less than a century after they were written, there is clear evidence that <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kent/the_origin_and_permanent_value_of_the_old_testament/vi_the_growth_of_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Foster Kent—</span><span class="citation2">The Origin & Permanent Value of the Old Testament</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/luther/epistle_sermons_vol_iii/second_sunday_after_trinity_exhortation.htm">Second Sunday after Trinity Exhortation to Brotherly Love. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Text: 1 John 3, 13-18. 13 Marvel not, brethren, if the world hateth you. 14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death. 15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. 16 Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoso hath the world's goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/luther/epistle_sermons_vol_iii/second_sunday_after_trinity_exhortation.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Martin Luther—</span><span class="citation2">Epistle Sermons, Vol. III</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/genesis/4-20.htm">Genesis 4:20 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/genesis/4-20.htm">Genesis 4:20 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/genesis/4-20.htm">Genesis 4:20 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/genesis/4-20.htm">Genesis 4:20 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/genesis/4-20.htm">Genesis 4:20 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/genesis/4-20.htm">Genesis 4:20 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/genesis/4-20.htm">Genesis 4:20 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../genesis/4-19.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Genesis 4:19"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Genesis 4:19" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../genesis/4-21.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Genesis 4:21"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Genesis 4:21" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/genesis/4-20.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>