Jabal, father of tent-dwellers
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καὶ ἔτεκεν Ἀδὰ τὸν Ἰωβέλ· οὗτος ἦν ὁ πατὴρ οἰκούντων ἐν σκηναῖς κτηνοτρόφων.
Ἰωβέλ (Jabal) becomes, in a single clause, the ancestor of an entire way of life: κτηνοτρόφων, "cattle-herders," who οἰκούντων ἐν σκηναῖς, "dwell in tents" — the first nomadic pastoralism named in the Bible, arising not from Seth's godly line but from Cain's, alongside the first city (v.17) and, in the next two verses, the first musical instruments and the first metalworking. The line under judgment is also, pointedly, the line of civilization's first arts.
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