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And when Cain had traveled over many countries, he, with his wife,
built a city, named Nod, which is a place so called, and there he settled
his abode; where also he had children. However, he did not accept of his
punishment in order to amendment, but to increase his wickedness; for he
only aimed to procure every thing that was for his own bodily pleasure,
though it obliged him to be injurious to his neighbors. He augmented his
household substance with much wealth, by rapine and violence; he excited
his acquaintance to procure pleasures and spoils by robbery, and became
a great leader of men into wicked courses. He also introduced a change
in that way of simplicity wherein men lived before; and was the author
of measures and weights. And whereas they lived innocently and generously
while they knew nothing of such arts, he changed the world into cunning
craftiness. He first of all set boundaries about lands: he built a city,
and fortified it with walls, and he compelled his family to come together
to it; and called that city Enoch, after the name of his eldest son Enoch.
Now Jared was the son of Enoch; whose son was Malaliel; whose son was Mathusela;
whose son was Lamech; who had seventy-seven children by two wives, Silla
and Ada. Of those children by Ada, one was Jabal: he erected tents, and
loved the life of a shepherd. But Jubal, who was born of the same mother
with him, exercised himself in music; 1
and invented the psaltery and the harp. But Tubal, one of his children
by the other wife, exceeded all men in strength, and was very expert and
famous in martial performances. He procured what tended to the pleasures
of the body by that method; and first of all invented the art of making
brass. Lamech was also the father of a daughter, whose name was Naamah.
And because he was so skillful in matters of divine revelation, that he
knew he was to be punished for Cain's murder of his brother, he made that
known to his wives. Nay, even while Adam was alive, it came to pass that
the posterity of Cain became exceeding wicked, every one successively
dying, one after another, more wicked than the former. They were intolerable
in war, and vehement in robberies; and if any one were slow to murder people,
yet was he bold in his profligate behavior, in acting unjustly, and doing
injuries for gain.
1 From this Jubal, not improbably, came Jobel, the trumpet of jobel or jubilee; that large and loud musical instrument, used in proclaiming the liberty at the year of jubilee.
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