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Welcome to your 15 minute daily Bible walk.

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A verse by verse devotional study through the Bible with Pastor Bob Thibodeau.

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In this unique study, Pastor Bob takes you through the Bible just a few verses at a time.

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From Genesis all the way through the book of the Revelation.

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No preaching, just a simple Bible reading with examples and short explanations of the meaning behind the Scriptures.

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Your 15 minute daily Bible walk is designed for those who are so busy it's hard for them to do a daily Bible study.

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So Pastor Bob developed this program so you could study the Bible in just 15 minutes a day.

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Now with today's scripture study, here's Pastor Bob Tibodo.

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Hello everyone, everywhere.

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Pastor Bob Thibodeau here.

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Welcome to your 15 Minute Bible Walk today for January 6th.

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I'm Pastor Bob Thibodeau and I'm so blessed that you're joining us today.

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Grab your Bibles.

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Let's open it up to the book of Genesis.

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We left off last time in Genesis chapter 4 at verse 7, where Cain and Abel just brought their offerings before God.

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And Cain got rebuked because he didn't put any intentional effort into it.

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Where Abel brought the, the, the tithe to God.

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And God just rebuked Cain in verse seven.

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And he said, you know, verse six says, why are you angry?

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Why is your continence falling if you do well, if you do what's supposed to happen?

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Won't you be accepted?

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But if you don't, sin lies at the do.

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To you shall be his desire.

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In other words, he'll.

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He'll be able to have you at his will.

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And you will, but you shall rule over him if you do what you're supposed to do.

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And verse eight now for today, Genesis, chapter four, verse eight.

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And Cain talked with Abel his brother.

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I like that.

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Didn't say they argued with each other.

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He didn't go out to argue with them.

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He didn't go out to fight him.

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He talk with Abel, his brother.

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I believe Abel kind of rebuked them a little bit.

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He may have antagonized the situation.

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That Bible doesn't say.

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But what we see here, he says he talked with Abel his brother about the offerings.

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And then it says, and it came to pass when they were in the field that Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and slew him.

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Now there's the first murder.

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But guess what?

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It was not illegal.

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Their murder was not against the law.

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There was no punishment for that.

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There was no law broken.

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How could there be?

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The law hadn't been given yet.

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So verse nine.

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And Yahweh said to Cain, where's Abel, your brother?

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And Cain replied, I don't know.

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Am I, am I my brother's keeper?

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Am I the one who's supposed to protect him?

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Think about what just said.

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What he just said, Abel's the keeper, the protector of the sheep.

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He's like, he's protecting the sheep.

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Am I supposed to protect him?

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That's what he's asking God.

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And he said, I don't know.

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That was a lie.

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So here God knows what Abel did, but now Abel has lied.

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Think back a couple of chapters.

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Garden of Eden.

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Again, serpent tricked Eve.

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She gave it to Adam.

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God comes down and says, you know, why are you hiding?

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He said, because we're naked.

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Who told you you were naked?

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Did you eat from that tree I told you not to eat from?

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And Adam, instead of saying, yes, we're sorry we did, and then let God figure out how to deal with that.

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Instead he said, God, this woman you gave me made me eat it.

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She gave to me and I ate it.

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And then he asked Eve, why did you do that?

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What have you done?

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She blamed the devil.

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She blamed the snake, the serpent, because the serpent tricked me.

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Neither one of them said we were sorry.

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Neither one of them said, I didn't mean to do it.

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But they were lying.

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They tried to get around God.

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Cain's doing the same thing here.

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He said, I don't know where he is.

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That was a lie.

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He lied to God.

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There's the punishment.

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Said, what have you done?

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The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground.

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When.

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And in the garden when the he had to slay.

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What we said was probably a lamb to give clothing to Adam and Eve, that lamb's blood was in the ground.

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Shed blood to cover the sin here.

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Every offering since then, same thing.

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Blood had to be shed.

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The lamb was crying out.

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God was recognizing this in his animal died for the sin of man.

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Here, his brother's blood is crying to God from the ground.

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Cain could have handled this different.

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Instead he tried lying to God and getting away with doing sin, as it isn't your brothers blood crying to me from the ground.

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Verse 11.

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Now.

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Now you are cursed from the earth.

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Not in the earth, from the earth.

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The earth is cursing you.

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The earth is cursing you.

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Because the earth has opened up her mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

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When?

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Now, that says semicolon.

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That means now it's going to be like this.

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So he says, now, when you till the ground, the Ground will not from this point forward yield to you from her strength.

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A fugitive and a vagabond you shall be in the earth.

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That's an interesting phrase, vagabond.

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What does vagabond mean?

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I'll tell you what we'll do.

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Let's just look it up here.

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I want a definition of a vagabond.

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A person who wanders from place to place without a home or a job.

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There you go.

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Amen.

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Says you are going to be a vagabond in this earth.

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Where was I here?

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And Cain said to the Lord, verse 13, my iniquity is greater than can be forgiven.

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That's the middle reference there in the scripture.

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It says, my punishment is greater than I can bear.

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He's telling God that, you know, you're not being fair to me here.

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You're not being fair to me, God.

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He said, you've driven me out.

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Verse 14.

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You have driven me out this day from the face of the earth.

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Now where are you gonna go?

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Where is he gonna go?

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Space?

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To the moon, you know, how can you go from the face of the Earth?

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What he's saying here is, you've driven me out from my area where I live.

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You're driving me out from my family.

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You're driving me out into the unknown.

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And from the your face I shall be hidden.

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You're driving away from me.

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You're driving me away from your presence, God.

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You're driving me away from you.

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What am I going to do without you?

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He's recognizing this.

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He says, I'll be out there.

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I'll be a fugitive.

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I'll be a vagabond in the earth.

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I'll be wandering from place to place with no family, nobody to call my own.

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He says, everybody that finds me will slay me.

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Now, notice here, everyone.

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So, in other words, there's been some population taking place.

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Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel.

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There's been others.

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We don't have time to go into that.

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We will get to it eventually, at some point in time.

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But this, you know, the Bible is very specific and is very accurate.

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And we don't.

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I don't have time to go into archaeology.

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And, you know, the dinosaurs and the caveman.

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There were other creatures out there.

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We'll put it like that.

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There were other.

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You know, you can't argue science.

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Let's put it like that.

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It was there.

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This just wasn't four people here at this point in time.

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All right?

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They were God's people.

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Those four were God's people.

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All right?

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But long story short, he says that everyone who finds me will try to slay me.

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And Jehovah Yahweh said to him, therefore, whosoever would slay Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.

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And Jehovah set a mark upon Cain, lest any fighting him should kill him.

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In other words, he's going to have this mark of protection around him.

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All right, now that's important, and that's going to come back here in a little bit.

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Verse 16.

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Cain went out from the presence of the Lord.

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He was cast out from the presence of the Lord.

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He is cast away from his family and dwelt in the latter of Nod, east of Eden.

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Cain knew his wife.

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Now, that's the first time we hear about Cain having a wife.

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Where did his wife come from?

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K knew his wife.

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She conceived and bore Enoch.

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Enoch built a city and called the name of the city after Or.

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And he bore Enoch.

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And Cain built a city and.

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And called the name of the city after the name of his son Enoch.

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Verse 18.

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To Enoch was born Irad.

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And Irad begot Mel.

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Mel begot Methusel, and Matusiel begot La Mac.

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Now, this is a different Lamech from chapter five.

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All right?

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Just like, you know, I would have a son, call him Christopher, and Christopher would have a son named Jack.

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And Jack and have a son named Christopher.

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It'd be different.

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A son named Robert.

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Well, that's a Robert.

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Different Robert from me.

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Put it like that.

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Okay, so here we see that this is different.

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Different.

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Lamar, lamac from chapter five and still got time.

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Verse 19.

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Lamech, the first son, okay, Lamech took to him two wives.

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The name of the one was Ada.

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The name of the other, Zilla.

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Ada bore Jabal.

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He was the father of such as dwell in tents and those that have the cattle.

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And his brother's name was Jubal.

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So you have Jabal.

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And Jubal.

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He was the father of all, such as handle the harp and the organ.

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Zilla.

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Who's Zilla?

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Where did you get Zilla from?

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Two wives.

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Okay?

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Ada and Zilla, verse 22.

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And Zilla, she also bore Tubal Cane, an instructor of every article, artificer in brass and iron.

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And the sister of Tubal.

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Cain was Neymar.

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And Lamak said to his wives, Ada and Zilla.

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Now remember who Lamak is, okay?

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Lamak was Enoch born Erad.

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Arabic.

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Mahil.

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Mahilio.

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Be out.

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Methusel and Methuselah begot Lamak.

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So Lamak here is what the great grandson of Enoch.

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I'm sorry of Cain, he says, and listen.

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Lamar said to his wives Ada and Zilla, hear my voice, you wives of Lamar, listen to my speech.

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For I have slain a man to my wounding and a young man to my hurt or in my hurt.

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In other words, he got into an argument, he got into a fight, and during the course of this fight, he killed this young man because the young man had wounded him.

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He was trying to kill him.

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He was defending himself and killed the man.

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He said if Cain should be avenged sevenfold.

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Because the, the sentence which God had given Cain was obviously passed down through his generations.

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So they understood there was a, a mark on Cain that nobody would touch him.

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Other God would render the punishment sevenfold.

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Whoever did.

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He said if Cain should be avenged sevenfold for what he did when he murdered Abel.

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Right.

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When Cain murdered Abel, God said, you're cast out of here, but if anybody kills you, I'll pay back sevenfold on that.

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He said, if Cain would be offended sevenfold, truly, someone who hurts me would be seventy sevenfold.

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In other words, it'd be multiple times over because I didn't do it on purpose.

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It was an accident.

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We call it today manslaughter.

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Okay, you didn't really intend to do it.

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It happened, but it didn't.

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You know, it could even be self defense.

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He said, if, if somebody wants to vent, get vengeance on me.

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God will take care of them.

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77 fold of the curse on that.

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Okay, and that's where we're going to leave it at today in verse 24, folks.

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I hope you're getting a lot out of this Bible study.

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I'm enjoying just going through the Bible one verse at a time with you.

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But we started here in Genesis.

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We're going to continue on, so be sure to come back for the very next episode.

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Join us in that the next I ask Pastor Bob reminding you to be blessed in all that you do.

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