Cain and Abel
Genesis 4 is dense and deep and yet it is sparse with its language. It’s like a riddle. The narrator gives us very few words, but those few words suggest and evoke interpretation. Novelist Ernest Hemingway famously made a wager that he could write a short story using less than ten words. He only needed six: “For sale: baby shoes. Never worn.” That is brief but suggestive. It sets your imagination firing in all kinds of directions. We have something like this in Genesis 4. Very few words, but those words are evocative. They invite you into the story in order to fill in the gaps intentionally…
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