20And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
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And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: …
And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.
And Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah, the father of Bethlehem. …
And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
These were the sons of Caleb the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah; Shobal the father of Kirjathjearim, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-22)We have here some particulars concerning Lamech, the seventh from Adam in the line of Cain. Observe, I. His marrying two wives. It was one of the degenerate race of Cain who first transgressed that original law of marriage that two only should be one flesh. Hitherto one man had but one wife at a time; but Lamech took two. From the beginning it was not so . Mal. 2:15 ; Matt. 19:5 . See here, 1. Tho…
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