Women of the Bible Eve Part 5 Finish

Women of the Bible

In this study we will take a look at the women within the Bible. We will look at each one of them and see how their story influences our lives today.

In this first study we will start with Eve.

Eve was the first woman. Independent and curious, she disobeyed Yahweh's commands. She ate the forbidden fruit, (more on this later) setting forth major change in the Garden of Eden - and human history.

Although man and woman have different roles to play within marriage, as far as our standing with Yahweh is concerned we are equal. We are both created in the image of Yahweh. We were both called to subdue the earth. 

In our last study we finished up on Eve there in Chapter 3. Before I continue with Eve in Chapter 4 allow me to read from the Apocrypha Book ‘LATIN ADAM AND EVE’

I will begin in Chapter 4

1   knew = Sexual intercourse. This is the first specific mention of sex in the Bible. The term knew or “to know” is a polite way of saying they had sexual relations, and the term is used often in the Bible in this sense (Genesis 4:17, 4:25, 38:26, Judges 11:39, 1 Samuel 1:19).

conceived = Second conception (Abel). 

Cain = ‘possession’ Born first (serpents son). 

I have gotten etc. = Read as: "I have gotten a son with the help of Yahweh:" ('ish 'eth Yahweh). Eve had no idea what was going on here, she did not know that Cain was from the serpent (Satan).

Gotten = The origin is based on the resemblance of sound between Cain and the Heb. root kaw-nah—‘to acquire’.

2              And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 

 again = Hebrew word # 3254; yacaph (yaw-saf'); a primitive root; to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing). In other words, Eve continued in labor and had the second of twins.

OK, now If Eve bore Cain and then continued in labor and bore Abel, what do you have? Twins of course! And If Adam had her once, and the serpent had her once, and Yahweh told her that her punishment would be to bear children (plural, and most specifically male) in sorrow (not the pain of delivering children), and that her children's children would always be enemies, even murder! What do you have? What's shaping up here?

Can One Baby Have Two Different Biological Fathers? The Rare Phenomenon of Heteropaternal Su-per-fee-cun-dation

The extremely rare, but scientifically possible, occurrence known as heteropaternal superfecundation allows for a woman to conceive twins (or higher multiples) with two different biological fathers. This happens when separate eggs are fertilized by sperm from separate acts of intercourse within a short period.

3  an offering. = This is the first mention of worship in Scripture, The religious instinct is part of man’s nature, and sacrifice is the earliest outward expression of that worship. Its purpose was to express acknowledgment of His bounty to the Giver of all.

5.  but unto Cain. = Unlike Abel’s, his sacrifice is rejected because of the difference of spirit in which it was offered. The Lord looks to the heart. 

Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell = in disappointment and dejection. Cain’s anger was undoubtedly rooted in pride. He couldn’t bear that his brother was accepted before Yahweh, and he was not. It is even possible that this was public knowledge if Yahweh consuming the sacrifice with fire indicated acceptance.

Join me as we go Chapter by Chapter, Verse by Verse, Unraveling the Words of Yahweh!

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