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Genesis: An Introduction and Commentary (Steinmann) is unavailable, but you can change that!

Genesis is a book of origins: of the world, of sin, of God’s promise of redemption, and of the people of Israel. It traces God’s pledge of a Savior through Abraham’s line down to his great-grandson Judah. It serves as a foundation for the New Testament and its teaching that Jesus is the fulfillment of God’s promise to save humankind from sin and death. In this Tyndale Commentary, Andrew Steinmann...

1. Knew (NRSV, ESV) is used of Adam’s sexual relationship with Eve. The result was Cain, whom Eve named. The name Cain sounds like ‘got’ in Hebrew. Eve acknowledged God’s blessing in providing her son, since she got him with the Lord. Perhaps she thought that this was the promised seed (3:15). 2–8. The birth of a second son is described in much more summary fashion (v. 2). His name, Abel, is also the Hebrew word for ‘vapour’ or ‘breath’. Like a vapour, Abel will quickly be gone from the narrative
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