These chapters tell about too much. The serpent tricked Eve into eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil which God commanded them to not do. She ate from the tree and gave some to Adam which opened their eyes. They realized that they were naked and God knew what they had done. God slammed the serpent into the ground making it crawl in the ground and he punished Eve by making giving birth a lot more painful. They were both kicked out of the garden and had two sons: Cain and Abel. God liked Abel's offering more so Cain simply killed him. Cain then fled because anybody could kill him and built the city of Enoch, named after his son. Generations later, God decides to flood the whole world but he let Noah and his family survive by warning him. He told him to build and arc to save his family and a male and female of every species of animals. It rained for forty days and it stayed flooded for over a hundred years before the water started to drain. Noah sent a raven to look for land but it was too stupid to do so he sent a dove that found an olive branch.
I tried my best to summarize it but probably failed miserably. This has the other story that everyone and their dog knows: Noah's arc. I mean, who in God's name wouldn't know it. It is like the first story kids learn. But I want to focus on Cain and Abel. It is the first act of jealousy in the Bible and also the first death in it. I found it as a good example of the rivalry between siblings to be the favorite son or daughter, and I found interesting how God had mercy on Cain even though he was the first to kill by protecting him even though he is hated.
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