Genesis 4

Cain and Abel 1.  Their birth. Adam and Eve looked forward to more than a richer family life when they anticipated the birth if their first child. For them it was the evidence that God’s promise of Genesis 3:15 was being realized, for there, God had promised salvation through the children that should be born to them.  Therefore when Cain, Eve’s firstborn arrived, she joyfully cried:  “I have gotten a man from the Lord.”  It is very well possible that she thought for the moment that Cain might...