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I have been, um, doggedly pursuing the answers to some questions, and I think I know the answers, but in the tradition of beating irrelevant trivia that really has no practical value to death, in fact, to a thin puree, I thought it might be a good idea to get some other peoples thoughts. It's about Cain, Able, and the Land of Exile. (Genesis 4:*} 1.) When Cain was banished to the Land of Exile, who was it already there that he was GREATLY afraid would kill him? 2.) Was it an existing Land of Exile that he was banished to, or did it BECOME a Land of Exile after his arrival? 3.) Apparently Cain was afraid that wherever he roamed, there would be someone there to kill him, so was the Land of Exile like, say, the next County over, or did it extend all the way to, say Asia? 4. How does one man and one woman immediately start building a City? (I would think a grass thatched single shelter would have been more appropriate, without tools.) 5.) Were the inhabitants of the Land of Exile inclined to kill Cain only, or anybody that inhabited Eden? 6.) And of course, the "standard" question .... Where did Cain get his wife?

From: http://www.fsmitha.com/h1/religion-sumer.htm That source goes on to state that the Cain/Abel story may have been added to Genesis as late as the time of the Babylonian exile.

Your thoughts on today's lesson? [paragraph 1] Who of us would not want to be on his side?...Still, some of God’s worshippers have wavered when a situation called for them to take sides with Jehovah. in paragraph 2.