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Genesis 4:1–26

Genesis 4:1–263 matched frames1 pivot

Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.

A 1-2 Birth of Cain and Abel
- B 3-5 Offerings: acceptance and rejection
  - C 5-8 Cain's wrath and murder
    - D 9-10 Divine accountability: Where is Abel?
  - C' 11-12 Cain's curse
- B' 13-16 Cain's banishment; sevenfold vengeance protection
A' 17-24 Cain's dynasty; Lamech's seventy-sevenfold vengeance
25-26 Seth's line: alternative lineage begins