Come and study the Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies, and it's an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

We'll go ahead and get started.

When we get started, we'll be starting in, at the beginning of Genesis chapter four, starting

with verse one.

One of the nice things so far in Genesis, this will go on for a little while at least, is

I don't have to do a ton of recap.

Because people are at least vaguely familiar with the stories.

And for details, I'm not going to repeat all the details,

obviously, because we never get anywhere.

So you can go to the previous episodes.

But obviously, we just finished Genesis 3.

And so that ended with the expulsion of Adam and E.

from Paradise.

May has been expelled out of paradise and into the present world.

And that is really right where we're picking up.

There's no, there isn't the text no time lapse described.

That doesn't mean there wasn't one.

Because as we're going to see, there's at least nine months are going to pass during the first verse.

But, but, that's really right. nine months are going to pass during the first verse.

But that's really right where we left off was their expulsion for paradise and the stationing of the cherubin with the fiery sword,

which, as we said, was to not to protect God and paradise from them,

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