When It Rains It Pours (Gen 4:16-9:29)

Icebreaker

Intro/Recap

The Line of Cain

note how the story slows down to focus on Lamech - a growing personification of the evil in cain’s line. Why? whats the point of this?

A Second Line - Who Calls upon the LORD

Genesis 4:25–26 ESV

And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and called his name Seth, for she said, “God has appointed for me another offspring instead of Abel, for Cain killed him.” To Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time people began to call upon the name of the Lord.

Genesis 5:1–3 ESV

This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created. When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.

Introduce “Toldot” formula’s use in genesis.

whats the importance of this genealogy? what is it doing in the story?