“And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth…” Wow, so Seth wanted to continue reading the Bible last night (see previous note/post) and you can only imagine how excited he was when I read his name at the end of Chapter 4 of Genesis. He ran downstairs because he had to tell his brothers that he was “famous”!
As a non-religious person, I have to admit that reading the Bible to a six year old has been a very interesting experience. Seth has a lot of questions that I can only answer in context of the words that I am reading to him. By the time we finished Chapter 5, Seth was wondering out loud if God was in fact good. It seemed to him that God was pretty harsh after Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge. Why did Adam serve over his wife? - A very good question from a six year old. He also did not understand why God was not nice to Cain after Cain offered fruit from the ground to God. Seth did understand that it was pretty drastic for Cain to kill his brother – and he assured me he would never kill his brothers. Good to know!
So there was a lot of begetting in Chapter 5 and hundreds of years passed in a few short paragraphs. People lived many years back then – including Seth who lived “nine hundred and twelve years: and he died” So much for fame.
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