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{"id":40,"verse_id":"GEN.4.2","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"GEN","chapter":4,"verse":2,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"2","reference":"4.2","text":"The name Abel is not defined here in the text, but the tone is ominous. Abels name, the Hebrew word הֶבֶל ( hevel ), means “breath, vapor, vanity,” foreshadowing Abels untimely and premature death.","source_note_position":2,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Genesis%204%3A2/2"}
{"id":41,"verse_id":"GEN.4.5","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"GEN","chapter":4,"verse":5,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"1","reference":"4.5","text":"The Letter to the Hebrews explains the difference between the brothers as one of faith Abel by faith offered a better sacrifice. Cains offering as well as his reaction to Gods displeasure did not reflect faith. See further B. K. Waltke, “Cain and His Offering,” WTJ 48 (1986): 363-72.","source_note_position":1,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Genesis%204%3A5/1"}
{"id":42,"verse_id":"GEN.4.8","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"GEN","chapter":4,"verse":8,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"3","reference":"4.8","text":"The word “brother” appears six times in vv. 8-11 , stressing the shocking nature of Cains fratricide (see 1 John 3:12 ).","source_note_position":3,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Genesis%204%3A8/3"}
{"id":43,"verse_id":"GEN.4.9","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"GEN","chapter":4,"verse":9,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"1","reference":"4.9","text":"Where is Abel your brother? Again the Lord confronts a guilty sinner with a rhetorical question (see Gen 3:9-13 ), asking for an explanation of what has happened.","source_note_position":1,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Genesis%204%3A9/1"}
{"id":44,"verse_id":"GEN.4.10","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"GEN","chapter":4,"verse":10,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"1","reference":"4.10","text":"What have you done? Again the Lord s question is rhetorical (see Gen 3:13 ), condemning Cain for his sin.","source_note_position":1,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Genesis%204%3A10/1"}
{"id":45,"verse_id":"GEN.4.14","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"GEN","chapter":4,"verse":14,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"2","reference":"4.14","text":"I must hide from your presence . The motif of hiding from the Lord as a result of sin also appears in Gen 3:8-10 .","source_note_position":2,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Genesis%204%3A14/2"}
{"id":46,"verse_id":"GEN.4.15","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"GEN","chapter":4,"verse":15,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"2","reference":"4.15","text":"The symbolic number seven is used here to emphasize that the offender will receive severe punishment. For other rhetorical and hyperbolic uses of the expression “seven times over,” see Pss 12:6; 79:12 ; Prov 6:31 ; Isa 30:26 .","source_note_position":2,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Genesis%204%3A15/2"}
{"id":47,"verse_id":"GEN.4.15","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"GEN","chapter":4,"verse":15,"note_index":2,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"4","reference":"4.15","text":"God becomes Cains protector. Here is common grace Cain and his community will live on under Gods care, but without salvation.","source_note_position":4,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Genesis%204%3A15/4"}
{"id":48,"verse_id":"GEN.4.16","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"GEN","chapter":4,"verse":16,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"1","reference":"4.16","text":"The name Nod means “wandering” in Hebrew (see vv. 12, 14 ).","source_note_position":1,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Genesis%204%3A16/1"}
{"id":49,"verse_id":"GEN.4.24","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"GEN","chapter":4,"verse":24,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"1","reference":"4.24","text":"Seventy-seven times . Lamech seems to reason this way: If Cain, a murderer, is to be avenged seven times (see v. 15 ), then how much more one who has been unjustly wronged! Lamech misses the point of Gods merciful treatment of Cain. God was not establishing a principle of justice when he warned he would avenge Cains murder. In fact he was trying to limit the shedding of blood, something Lamech wants to multiply instead. The use of “seventy-seven,” a multiple of seven, is hyperbolic, emphasizing the extreme severity of the vengeance envisioned by Lamech.","source_note_position":1,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Genesis%204%3A24/1"}
{"id":50,"verse_id":"GEN.4.25","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"GEN","chapter":4,"verse":25,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"2","reference":"4.25","text":"The name Seth probably means something like “placed”; “appointed”; “set”; “granted,” assuming it is actually related to the verb that is used in the sentiment. At any rate, the name שֵׁת ( shet ) and the verb שָׁת ( shat , “to place, to appoint, to set, to grant”) form a wordplay (paronomasia).","source_note_position":2,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Genesis%204%3A25/2"}