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An example from a one-volume Bible commentary. This is an excerpt from the commentary on Genesis from The New Jerome Biblical Commentary (1990), page 13:
... (b) CAIN'S MURDER OF ABEL (4:1-16[J]). The entire chapter, though of diverse traditions, is now a unity: the vb. "to know" introduces sections within it, vv1-2, 9-16, 17-22, and 25-26. The number seven recurs in vv 15 and 24; Lamech is the seventh in the generation, and several words occur seven times ("Abel," "brother," "mane") or 14 times ("Cain"). The chapter also continues the preceding story; disobedience and punishment continue among the children of the man and the woman. The divine names in chaps. 2-4 appear 70 times (Elohim 40 times, Yahweh Elohim 20 times, Yahweh 10 times), the 70th ("at that time people began to call on the name of Yahweh") occurring in the final verse, 4:26 (Cassuto, Genesis 1.178-96). ... |
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