Hey, this is Dan at Bible Project. I'm the lead podcast editor.

And you might know that we've been exploring a theme called the City.

You know, this is such a big theme that we've actually decided to do two separate Q and R

episodes for it. So we're now taking questions for the first Q and R and we would really love to

hear from you. You can record your question by June 9th and send it to us at info at BibleProject.com.

Let us know your name, where you're from, and try and keep your question to about 20 seconds.

And if you're able to, please transcribe your question in the email when you send it to us.

That is a huge help to our team. Again, our email is info at BibleProject.com.

Okay, that's it. We are really looking forward to hearing from you. Here's our episode.

Adam and Eve have two sons, Kane and Naples. Kane becomes jealous of his brother Abel and he

kills him. Kane, the first murder in the Bible, is also the founder of the very first city

in the Bible. Kane builds a city as a place of protection, but the city embodies the fear,

and jealousy, and violence of Kane. And so it's no surprise that the next person that we learn about

in the city of Kane is a vicious man named Lamek. What God appointed Adam and Eve to do together,

the tube to be one and to rule together over the animals. How you get one guy who takes two,

so he begins to treat women like animals to be accumulated, and then he mutates or

distorts the rule or power that he has to take life instead of to preserve life. So he's the

anti-Adam. As the story of humanity continues to unfold, the violence of humanity increases.

In Genesis 6, we learned that things get so bad that the whole land is full of violence.

That little phrase the land was full is a tragic inversion of God's blessing. Be fruitful and

multiply and fill the land. And humans have multiplied all kinds of stuff and what they've multiplied

is the innocent blood that is crying out from the ground. God's response to human violence is to

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