Genesis 4:3 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 4:3

So in the course of time, Cain brought some of the fruit of the soil as an offering to the LORD,

BSB

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ASV

And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto Jehovah.

KJV

And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord.

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

In process of time - מקץ ימים mikkets yamim, at the end of days. Some think the anniversary of the creation to be here intended; it is more probable that it means the Sabbath, on which Adam and his family undoubtedly offered oblations to God, as the Divine worship was certainly instituted, and no doubt the Sabbath properly observed in that family. This worship was, in its original institution, very simple. It appears to have consisted of two parts: 1. Thanksgiving to God as the author and dispenser of all the bounties of nature, and oblations indicative of that gratitude.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 461: “Am I Clear Of His Blood?” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1862)

CAIN was of the Wicked One and slew his brother. "The way of Cain" is not hard to describe. He is too proud to offer atonement for his sin. He prefers his own way of sacrifice. He presents a bloodless oblation. He hates the obedience of faith. He smites the faithful Abel. Beware of the way of Cain, O proud self-righteous ones, lest you run therein, for the steps are few from self-righteous pride to hatred of true Believers and murder is not far thereafter.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַֽיְהִ֖י	vay.Hi	and it happened	H1961 →
מִקֵּ֣ץ	mi.Ketz	from [the] end of	H7093 →
יָמִ֑ים	ya.Mim	days	H3117 →
וַיָּבֵ֨א	vai.ya.Ve'	and he brought	H935 →
קַ֜יִן	Ka.yin	Cain	H7014 →
מִפְּרִ֧י	mi.pe.Ri	some of [the] fruit of	H6529 →
הָֽאֲדָמָ֛ה	ha.'a.da.Mah	the ground	H127 →
מִנְחָ֖ה	min.Chah	an offering	H4503 →
לַֽיהוָֽה׃	la.Yah.weh	to Yahweh	H3068 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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1 Kings 17:7
Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.
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- Isaiah 54:10
  Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the LORD, who has…
- Isaiah 40:30–31
  Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.
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Nehemiah 13:6
While all this was happening, I was not in Jerusalem, because I had returned to Artaxerxes king of Babylon in the thirty-second year of his reign. Some time later I obtained leave from the…
leads to
- Nehemiah 5:14
  Furthermore, from the day King Artaxerxes appointed me to be their governor in the land of Judah, from his twentieth year until his thirty-second year (twelve years total), neither I nor my brothers ate…
- Nehemiah 2:5–6
  and answered the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city where my fathers are…
- Matthew 13:25
  But while everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and slipped away.
Through
Numbers 18:12
I give you all the freshest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain that the Israelites give to the LORD as their firstfruits.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 18:4
  You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool sheared from your flock.
- Exodus 23:19
  Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
- Exodus 34:26
  Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

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