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NASB | Genesis 9:6 "Whoever sheds man's blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God He made man. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 9:6 "Whoever sheds man's blood [unlawfully], By man (judicial government) shall his blood be shed, For in the image of God He made man. [Rom 13:4] |
Bible Question: Why would they kill cain if the saw him (Genesis 4:14)? How would they know he killed his brother? And what was the sign that told everyone not to kill them |
Bible Answer: FIRSTLY, When God encountered Cain with the question, 'Where is Abel thy brother?' he had the opportunity to confess and repent. But Cain lied instead, and when given the punishment he again had the chance to take responsibility for his actions. He does not change or repent from his sins, but accuses God of being too harsh, being unmerciful. It is with this heart that Cain cries out, "My punishment is too great to bear! Behold, You have driven me this day from the face of the ground; and from Your face I will be hidden, and I will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me." But God is great in His mercy which we bestows on the sons of men. And he mercifully forbears the righteous judgment of the first murderer, allowing him to live and not die for many years. SECONDLY, Cain was the first murderer. The first to destroy that which God had created in his own image. The first to spill the life, the blood of an innocent man into the ground. Cain defiled the earth with spilling innocent blood. And the only thing that could cleanse it was the blood of Cain. Cain feared his righteous judgment as God set forth in His Law; Genesis 9:6 “Whoever sheds man's blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God He made man.” Numbers 35:30-33 'If anyone kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death at the evidence of witnesses, but no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness. 'Moreover, you shall not take ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death. 'You shall not take ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to live in the land before the death of the priest. 'You shall not take ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to live in the land before the death of the priest. 'So you shall not pollute the land in which you are; for blood pollutes the land and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who shed it. THIRDLY, You know Cain killed his brother. The people who would be around during the life of Cain would have known about this, they would be Cain’s family, the sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, his brothers and sisters, nephews and nieces. At that time there were not millions of people, and this had not happened thousands of years ago. This was the first murder. FINALLY, We are not told what sign God used. God has used different signs to signify His restraint of Judgment, i.e. the rainbow, the blood over the doorposts at the Passover, and the seal He will put in the foreheads of the 144,000 in the last days, described in the book of Revelation. What sign He used with Abel is something we cannot know because it does not say. But it was of God, and everyone knew what it meant. royfish316 |
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