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          St. Mark Coptic Church
                11th Grade
   Lesson 4: Drama of Creation (Cont’d)

Ψαλμός

Left:

  Why do the nations rage,
  And why do the people
    imagine a vain thing?

Right:

  The kings of the earth rise up,
  And the rulers take counsel together,
  Against the LORD
    and against His Anointed:

  “Let us break Their bonds asunder
  And cast away Their yokes from us.”

Left:

  He who dwells in the heavens
    shall laugh them to scorn;
  The LORD
    shall have them in derision.

Right:

  He shall speak to them in His wrath,
  And trouble them in His anger:

  “I was established as King by Him
  On His holy hill, Zion.”

Left:

  “I will declare the decree:
  The LORD has said to Me,

Right:

  ‘You are My Son,
  Today have I begotten You.

  Ask of Me, and I will give You
  The nations for Your inheritance,
  And the ends of the earth
    for Your possession.

Left:

  You shall break them with a rod of iron;
  You shall dash them to pieces
    like a potter’s vessel.’”

Right:

  Now therefore, be wise, O kings;
  Be instructed,
    you judges of the earth.

  Serve the LORD with fear,
  And rejoice in Him with trembling.

Left:

  Kiss His Son, lest He be angry,
  And you perish from the way,
  For His wrath is quickly kindled.

Right:

  Blessed are all
    who put their trust in Him.


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            “Cain Slays Abel”
               (Genesis 4)

Characters

  (In order of appearance)
  Narrator
  Eve
  God
  Cain
  Lamech

NARRATOR

    Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she
    conceived and bore Cain, and said,

EVE

    “I have acquired a man from the LORD.”

NARRATOR

    Then she bore again, this time his
    brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of
    sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the
    ground.

NARRATOR

    And in the process of time it came to
    pass that Cain brought an offering of
    the fruit of the ground to the LORD.
    Abel also brought of the firstborn of
    his flock and of their fat.

NARRATOR

    And the LORD respected Abel and his
    offering, but He did not respect Cain
    and his offering.

NARRATOR

    And Cain was very angry, and his
    countenance fell. So the LORD said to
    Cain,

GOD

    “Why are you angry? And why has your
    countenance fallen? “If you do well,
    will you not be accepted? And if you
    do not do well, sin lies at the door.
    And its desire is for you, but you
    should rule over it.”

NARRATOR

    Now Cain talked with Abel his brother;
    and it came to pass, when they were in
    the field, that Cain rose up against
    Abel his brother and killed him.

NARRATOR

    Then the LORD said to Cain,

GOD

    “Where is Abel your brother?”

NARRATOR

    He said,

CAIN

    “I do not know. Am I my brother’s
    keeper?”

NARRATOR

    And He said,

GOD

    “What have you done? The voice of your
    brother’s blood cries out to Me from
    the ground. So now you are cursed from
    the earth, which has opened its mouth
    to receive your brother’s blood from
    your hand. When you till the ground,
    it shall no longer yield its strength
    to you. A fugitive and a vagabond
    shall you be on the earth.”

NARRATOR

    And Cain said to the LORD,

CAIN

    “My punishment is greater than I can bear!
    Surely You have driven me out this day
    from the face of the ground; I shall be
    hidden from Your face; I shall be a
    fugitive and a vagabond on the earth, and
    it will happen that anyone who finds me
    will kill me.”

NARRATOR

    And the LORD said to him,

    “Therefore, whoever kills Cain,
    vengeance shall be taken on him
    sevenfold.”

NARRATOR

    And the LORD set a mark on Cain, lest
    anyone finding him should kill him.

NARRATOR

    Then Cain went out from the presence
    of the LORD and dwelt in the land of
    Nod on the east of Eden.

NARRATOR

    And Cain knew his wife, and she
    conceived and bore Enoch. And he built
    a city, and called the name of the
    city after the name of his son—Enoch.

NARRATOR

    To Enoch was born Irad; and Irad begot
    Mehujael, and Mehujael begot
    Methushael, and Methushael begot
    Lamech.

NARRATOR

    Then Lamech took for himself two
    wives: the name of one was Adah, and
    the name of the second was Zillah.

NARRATOR

    And Adah bore Jabal. He was the father
    of those who dwell in tents and have
    livestock. His brother’s name was
    Jubal. He was the father of all those
    who play the harp and flute.

NARRATOR

    And as for Zillah, she also bore
    Tubal-Cain, an instructor of every
    craftsman in bronze and iron. And the
    sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah.

NARRATOR

    Then Lamech said to his wives:

LAMECH

    “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice;
    Wives of Lamech, listen to my speech!
    For I have killed a man for wounding
    me, Even a young man for hurting me.
    If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold,
    Then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”

NARRATOR

    And Adam knew his wife again, and she
    bore a son, named him Seth, and said,

EVE

    “For God has appointed another seed
    for me instead of Abel, whom Cain
    killed.”

NARRATOR

    And as for Seth, to him also a son was
    born; and he named him Enosh.

NARRATOR

    Then men began to call on the name of
    the LORD.

          The Genealogy of Adam
             (Genesis 5:1-5)

NARRATOR

    This is the book of the genealogy of
    Adam.

NARRATOR

    In the day that God created man, He
    made him in the likeness of God.

NARRATOR

    He created them male and female, and
    blessed them and called them Mankind
    in the day they were created. And Adam
    lived one hundred and thirty years,
    and begot a son in his own likeness,
    after his image, and named him Seth.

NARRATOR

    After he begot Seth, the days of Adam
    were eight hundred years; and he had
    sons and daughters. So all the days
    that Adam lived were nine hundred and
    thirty years; and he died.

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