Today, I am reading and commenting on  Genesis 4-7.

As I was reading today’s passage the first thing which struck me is that the genealogy in chapter five does not tell us that the sons named were the first born.  Before today I had never realized that the passage does not make any claim that Enosh was Seth’s first born son, the same being true for each of those listed after this.  So, while the passage definitively tells us that Seth was Adam’s third born son (after Cain and Abel), it makes no particular claim about the birth order for the rest of those listed (except that they each had younger brothers and sisters).  The other thing I never before realized is that the passage seems to imply that Seth was Adam’s true heir.  The wording of the passage seems to suggest that Cain lost his rights as the first born son because he killed his brother, which made Seth the eldest remaining son to Adam.

While none of these thoughts seem to me to have any spiritual significance, they are what came to me as I read this passage today.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.