Day 002 (Genesis 4-7) - Year 8
The Bible Recap
Tara-Leigh Cobble
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🗓️ 2 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. |
| 0:12.3 | Today we read about the first children, Kane and Abel. |
| 0:15.4 | And speaking of children, if you have any nearby, you may want to preview this episode before sharing it with them. |
| 0:20.8 | So just a heads up on that. |
| 0:22.8 | Kane and Abel carried out the sin nature of their parents. |
| 0:25.5 | The thing about being not God is that we're by nature less than perfect. |
| 0:29.6 | Yesterday, when God finished creating, he declared it very good and he blessed man. |
| 0:34.2 | But being very good and being blessed are entirely different than being perfect and complete. |
| 0:39.4 | There is zero chance that imperfect man would live up to God's standard of perfection, |
| 0:44.2 | and we saw that played out today when Cain murdered his brother Abel. |
| 0:48.2 | What's interesting to me in this passage is that this murder happened about 2,500 years |
| 0:52.5 | before God gave Moses the Ten Commandments. |
| 0:55.2 | But, Cain still knew murder was wrong, even though it hadn't been written out on the tablets. |
| 1:00.5 | Those stone tablets weren't necessary for mankind to know right from wrong. |
| 1:04.3 | Kane even knew what justice required. He knew there would be a natural consequence for his actions, |
| 1:09.6 | because in 414, he feared other people |
| 1:11.8 | killing him in response to him killing his brother. |
| 1:14.7 | One of the things people often ask when they read this story is, where did Cain's wife come from? |
| 1:19.4 | Because we see in 417 that he got married. |
| 1:22.0 | Scripture points to all humanity being descended from Adam and Eve, so it doesn't seem like |
| 1:26.6 | God created a bunch of people |
| 1:27.9 | independent of them. However, Scripture does tell us that Adam and Eve had lots of children after |
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