Cain overreacts to God’s preference of Abel’s offering, so is cursed and marked. Note however that Cain’s descendants are drowned in The Flood, so all those folks who talk about the mark of Cain being black skin are just making it up.

We briefly meet Lemech, the first bigamist. So how exactly is “one man and one woman” as God intended? We also meet the Nephilim, who are not quite men, but not quite gods. But they have sex with the women. No real explanation, and I never hear about them on talk radio.

The major event here is God the sociopath. Because people are sinning, he’s going to drown the entire world. All but Noah and family. Now that’s a tantrum.

This is the first time that I’ve heard that there are seven pairs of each clean animal (and birds). I understand the distinction, but why doesn’t any preacher ever seem to discuss this?

What really gets my goat is how this omniscient being regrets creating the world, because the people to whom he gave free will are not behaving the way he’d like. didn’t he know this was going to happen?

Tomorrow: Gen 8-11.