Comments | whittled_writ: Genesis 4:1

stationary_jew in whittled_writ

Genesis 4:1 - 5:32

Apr 11, 2007 19:40

Adam and Eve acted as people who've seen each other naked tend to do, and soon enough had sons: Cain, a farmer; and Abel, a shepherd. Eventually, Cain was angry because God liked Abel's sacrifices better, and killed him. So God cursed Cain to wander, but his son Enoch founded the first city (also called Enoch). Enoch's grandsons pioneered a ( Read more... )

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stationary_jew April 12 2007, 01:09:45 UTC

This is probably the most condensed anything's going to get in the whole project: Those six sentences cover everything we're going to say about a period of over 1500 years.

draquani April 12 2007, 01:20:24 UTC

Wow, commenting on your own entry... before anyone else! I'm impressed!

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stationary_jew April 12 2007, 13:45:15 UTC

I hadn't previously thought about it for this section specifically (this seems like the sort of project where it's better not to plan ahead too much), but I knew there are a fair number of genealogies floating around. You'd think they'd just be "Seth had a lot of descendants. Okay, next chapter!" but there are usually little tidbits of things mixed in the middle; I think even the Israelites, who are as geneaologically-obsessed as any knight errant with twenty quarterings on his crest, knew there's only so much unrelenting "A lived X years, begat B, and lived a further Y years" that a person can take.

I've got a feeling Chronicles is going to go rather quickly, when the time comes.