NOAH TO ABRAHAM

MODULE 1: SESSION 5: Tale of Two Seeds

We learn that In Genesis 5:1 Cain is introduced as the seed of the woman and later on became the seed of the snake by choice. It is not inevitable that Cain replays his parents’ failure. Each generation faces its own testing. Genesis 4 and 5 gives us two genealogies, first Cain’s and then Seth’s the seed of the snake and the seed of the woman. Cain starts off as the seed of the woman, but by his choices, he aligns himself with the seed of the snake. Further, the continuation of Noah’s genealogy in 6:9-10, 7:6, and 9:28-29 shows the seams where biblical authors wove two narratives into a unified story.