We also know that Enoch did not preach to the Canaanites, a band of people responsible for the annihilation of the people of Shum (Moses 7:7). [6][7], Nod is said to be outside of the presence or face of God. The importance of a deity was, as youd guess, tied to the fortunes of its city. Genesis 4:1-17: 1 "And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain and said, 'I have gotten a man from the Lord.'". 42 And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bare Enoch, and he also begat many sons and daughters. So as the Neolithic revolution got well and truly underway the Sumerian tongue flourished and became the lingua franca for traders and the dominant language in Mesopotamia. The murder had introduced fear, insecurity and homelessness to the world. However, the older Sumerian story credits Enki with giving life to all things, including mankind, and names Enlil the slayer of Tiamat. Inventions. He saw the God of Heaven weep as He looked upon the wickedness of the world and the eventual flood that would destroy the wicked, events that would not happen for hundreds of years. Analysis is what we do with that information after its collected. Zephaniah & Habakkuk foretell Judah's fall, Zephaniah warns of the punishment of Judah, Habakkuk asks why the cruel Babylonians succeed, 44. He writes, "The City of Enoch, we have seen, is admitted by all the leading Biblical experts to be identical with the City Unug or Unuk and latterly Uruk, of the Sumerians, and identical with "Erech" of the later Hebrew Old Testament texts.". Again, this is speculative and it may be way off base so dont take it as gospel. It will immeasurably enrich your understanding of such doctrines as the nature of God, pre-mortal life, the Creation, the Fall, the Atonement, the establishment of Zion, the Last Days, and the Second Coming. Eventually, the people of the City of Enoch were translated and taken from off the earth. Please read them with prayerful discernment and glean from them. As a rule, only the eldest son is mentioned in the genealogies, and Abel's birth is chronicled chiefly because of his tragical end, leading to the enactment of the merciful law which followed and to the sundering of the human race. The Ubaid civilization got its name from Tell al-`Ubaid, a small settlement mound in southeast Iraq where famous archaeologists Henry Hall and Sir Leonard Woolley dug up the first bits of pottery from those people between 1919 and 1924. The Eridu Crania: A Preliminary Report,, https://allpropastors.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/elongated-Skuls-3.jpg, https://allpropastors.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/logo-t.png, Cain, the First City, and the Mystery of Head Shaping, Copyright - All Pro Pastors International. [5], Josephus wrote in Antiquities of the Jews (c. AD 93) that Cain continued his wickedness in Nod: resorting to violence and robbery; establishing weights and measures; transforming human culture from innocence into craftiness and deceit; establishing property lines; and building a fortified city. When he built a city, he called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch. Cain was initiating a new (godless) way of life, as well as a new (godless)security, and a completely new (godless) sense of rootedness. God bless you and your family this Christmas as we remember the birth of the King of Kings. It places Cain's city of refuge in contrast to later Palestinian cities of refuge established by God (Numbers 35:25-32). The inspired author of the book of Hebrews contrasted the faith of Abel with the unbelief of Cain, in the faith chapter. Though, then, the wife may have had most to do with giving the name, yet we see in it a purpose that the child should be a trained and consecrated man; and Cain must have now put off those fierce and violent habits which had led him into so terrible a crime. Science is the process by which we collect and record information to test theories about the way things are. When he was 65 years old, Enoch, the seventh patriarch after Adam, was called by God to be a prophet. [10], Land of Nod is the name of a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The Sumerian King List states that the builder of Uruk was Mesh-ki-ang-gasher the son of Utu. The Israelites face continuing opposition, The Israelites fight the remaining Canaanites, Israel under the 'judges': Othniel and Ehud, Gibeah is destroyed & the Benjamites punished, The Ark of the Covenant is captured at Aphek, 30. The city of Eridu was another southern Mesopotamian city and appears to be the city in which Adam and Eve lived after their employment in the garden of Eden had been terminated. Gen 4:17-25 Nearly a thousand years of ancestral history passes by as the Biblical narrative moves on to Enoch (Hebrew, meaning founder), a descendent of Cain who founds the first city in Mesopotamia in c.4250BC, located at the mouth of the River Euphrates in Shinar (historical Sumer in modern-day southern Iraq) (see4 on Map 35). Cain's son Enoch, the grandson of Adam (see Moses 5 ), is different from Jared's son Enoch, who was six generations from Adam and built the city of Zion (see Moses 6-7 ). Akkadian words eventually gave rise to the Hebrew language, among other languages, and although the Akkadian and Sumerian scribes both used cuneiform to record their words, their languages were unrelated. Jesus reaffirms its idea by mentioning "the father below" who is the father of lies and the first murderer (Cain). To go much deeper with author and Biblical History Researcher Derek Gilbert read his recent book The Great Inception. All the homesgone. Genesis' "first city," Enoch, created in the mythical land of Nod by Adam's son Cain is identified as being in Mesopotamia and the land of ancient Sumer. The Land of Nod (Hebrew: .mw-parser-output .script-hebrew,.mw-parser-output .script-Hebr{font-family:"SBL Hebrew","SBL BibLit","Taamey Ashkenaz","Taamey Frank CLM","Frank Ruehl CLM","Ezra SIL","Ezra SIL SR","Keter Aram Tsova","Taamey David CLM","Keter YG","Shofar","David CLM","Hadasim CLM","Simple CLM","Nachlieli",Cardo,Alef,"Noto Serif Hebrew","Noto Sans Hebrew","David Libre",David,"Times New Roman",Gisha,Arial,FreeSerif,FreeSans} ere-N) is a place mentioned in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible, located "on the east of Eden" (qima-en), where Cain was exiled by God after Cain had murdered his brother Abel. And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. Answer:Adamthe man in the gardentook on the name of men and represented men in the scenario we see in the garden of Eden. Although agricultural settlements like Jericho (c. 9000 B.C.) [8] Early commentators treated it as the opposite of Eden (worse still than the land of exile for the rest of humanity). Joseph Smith taught that the Tower of Babel was built to overtake the City of Enoch. 18 To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad fathered Mehujael, and Mehujael fathered Methushael, and Methushael fathered Lamech. Lamech likely lived near the city of Enoch that his great-great-great grandfather, Cain built. The city of Cain is built on the captivity of the many to the dominance and vengeance of the few. (Genesis 4:18) (B.C. Eve said, God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him (Gen 4:25). Modern revelation teaches that Enoch "saw the Lord, and he walked with him, and was before his face continually." (D&C 107:49.) Because his own works were evil, and his brothers righteousHereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. This website uses cookies to monitor usage (see Privacy Statement in drop-down box under 'Contact Us'). by: Robert Marshall. Unique Circular Format . That's what we read about in the second chapter of Genesis. The winners of the Church History Museums 12th International Art Competition have been announced, and the artwork is breathtaking. When he built a city, he called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch. Answer. Cain has gone into restlessness. A place where human beings can escape from a sense of alienation and restlessness. Uruk is a strong contender for the city that Cain built. Enoch, a pre-Flood city. One can only assume that, whether in his newly founded city or in ongoing wanderings, he descended into the downward spiral of Romans1:18-32. (en) : an: Enoch [ink] . Depiction of Cain establishing the city of Enoch, by, Learn how and when to remove this template message, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Enoch_(son_of_Cain)&oldid=1138171460, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles needing additional references from December 2017, All articles needing additional references, Pages using infobox person with multiple parents, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 8 February 2023, at 11:38. Question: I am curious about the metaphysics of: land of Nod, Cain's wife, and the Son/City of Enoch. Thus began a vision of what would happen to the earth from then to the Millennium, and where Zion would eventually be located. "Then Cain went away from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, east of Eden. From Acts of the Apostles to John's Revelation, 12 Aug. 1 Corinthians 10:16-17,11:20-34, 2 Feb. Genesis 29:31-35,30:1-12,17-24. toiling to coax enough food from the ground to survive, the pain of bringing new life into the world, and all the rest. What can we say about Cain's wicked sanctuary-city of Enoch? According to the Biblical account,the first Mesopotamian city was built by Cains descendents. According to the Book of Jubilees 4:9, Enoch's mother/aunt was named Awan. Cain built this city in the land of Fugitiveness to the E of Eden, calling it by the name of his son Enoch. Your email address will not be published. Irad was the father of Mehujael. Cain lay with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Enter your email to receive updates on our LDS Living content, 2022 LDS Living A Division of Deseret Book Company, 5 Things You Probably Didn't Know About the Three Nephites, The Pearl of Great Price: Verse by Verse Commentary. Cain's departure from God started with distance from God and led to complete disconnection from God. )[4], A Greek version of Nod written as appearing in the Onomastica Vaticana possibly derives from the plural , which relates to resting and sleeping. 4300BC (Ubaid period) City abandoned between 2663-2500BC (Time of flood 2663BC all of Cain's descendents are dead) (Ephrem, Commentary on Genesis 3:11) Cain left God's presence and went to live in the land of Nod, opposite Eden, Nod means disturbance. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. First, let's read the actual words of Genesis 4:16-17, which The Golden Children's Bible attempted to paraphrase: Then Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of Nod on the east of Eden. In the Hebrew version we read that Cain lived in the land of Nod. Just as Eridu was the home of Enki, Enlil was chief deity at Nippur, Inanna (Ishtar) was supreme at Uruk, the sun god Utu was the patron deity of Sippar, and so on. , describes how everything on Earth came into being through the defeat of the chaos goddess Tiamat by Marduk, son of Enki/Ea, the chief god of Babylon. There is no biblical record of the birth of Cain so we cant reliably date it, but his younger brother Seth was born in 4918 BC. If we place a global flood sometime between 4000 and 3500 B.C. 2.51.45), , Byron 2011, p. 101. The concept of Cain's Enoch corresponding to Egypt, could semi-highlight a common motif of sibling struggle; by the sons of Seth (Israelites) in a land that allegedly once belonged to the sons of . Because of Enoch's preaching and leadership, the people of the City of Enoch were so righteous that "the Lord came anddweltwith his people" while they were on the earth (Moses 7:16). This is supposedly after Cain killed Abel, and before Adam and Eve had any other sons and daughters. The story of Cain and his line is designed to teach us something about all of fallen humanity, as regarding our relationship to God, ourselves and our environment. It's unclear where the City of Enoch was located. East of Eden, away from Gods presence and the memory of the paradise,Cain would set about to make his own life.He would secure himself, and escape from his wonderings by building the worlds first city. A possible description we have of where the City of Enoch might have been located is in Moses 7:17, which states that the people of Enoch "were blessed upon the mountains, and upon the high places, and did flourish," making it possible that the City of Enoch could have been built somewhere in a mountainous region.