So Cain kills Abel and then God finds out about it. The interesting thing here is that God does not kill Cain in retaliation in fact he banishes him (which is a horrible punishment), but at the same time he protects him by giving him a mark.
Here's where your kids can argue for a tatoo.
Apparantly in "those times" a person who was found wandering about without a mark to signify his clan was summerialy killed. So God, in all his wisdom did not want Cain killed. He still loved him.
Unfortunatly the bloodlust did not stop there. Cain gave birth to Lamech who sings the praises of his acts of killing people simple because they offended him. It seems like murder has become a culturally acceptable act and this of course sets the stage for the story of Noah. Obviously God can't take this anymore and decides to do something about it.
Do take note however that Lamech the singing murdered hasa three sons. One is a farmer, one and artist and one a blacksmith. All sho live in the city Cain built. This is the first instance in the bible where civilization is giving birth to trade. And man grows from a hunter and a gatherer to enjoy the lesure time and need the singers and the dancers and the artists to amuse him .
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