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Why Cain Builds a City – The City E2

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The Importance of Azer

The biblical authors will use intentionally, awkward, strange feeling, turns of phrase. This is awkward in Hebrew to get your attention. There's an idea that they're either hyperlinking back to or foundationally like establishing an idea and what follows. The word Azer, Zion, Zion, Rish, has consonants that keep appearing in the rest of the story. What they could not do for themselves, God builds by giving them an azer. That's the foundational image in this little scene. And those aren't details you would necessarily know to pay attention to. But as we're going to see, the little thing I just said is just going to keep coming up over and

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