Genesis 4:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

Enoch. Teaching or Initiation. Cain's posterity (verses: Genesis 4:16-24) comes in "the Generations of the heavens and the earth" (see Structure, p. 5). See App-20. This seed was begotten after the slaying of Abel.

city.. city has been discovered beneath the brick platform on which Nipur, in South Babylonia, was built. This verse shows there were people on earth other than Adam's children, or Cain married his full sister.

Genesis 4:17

17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch:f and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.