Seth, in Abel's place
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Ἔγνω δὲ Ἀδὰμ Εὔαν τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ, καὶ συλλαβοῦσα ἔτεκεν υἱόν. καὶ ἐπωνόμασεν τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Σήθ λέγουσα Ἐξανέστησεν γάρ μοι ὁ θεὸς σπέρμα ἕτερον ἀντὶ Ἄβελ, ὃν ἀπέκτεινεν Κάιν.
Ἐξανέστησεν, "he has raised up" — a compound of ἀνίστημι, the New Testament's own resurrection verb — describes Seth as a kind of restitution, σπέρμα ἕτερον ἀντὶ Ἄβελ, "another seed instead of Abel." σπέρμα, "seed," is the same word Paul will build an entire argument on in Gal 3:16 ("it does not say 'seeds,' as of many, but as of one, 'and to your seed'"), reaching back through this exact family line toward the promise first spoken over the serpent in 3:15.
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