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People would get sick and die, and people
    would learn to hate and kill. But Jesus would also
    come and save His people, and all this has happened
    Just Because Adam and Eve sinned.
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    Life outside the garden was much different for
    Adam and Eve. They had to plant seeds and
    grow their own food although the Lord had put many
    fruit trees outside for them as well. Back at the gate
    into Eden the sword-angel stood and stopped anyone
    from going inside. He held a flaming sword in his
    hand which looked like bright fire.
    Satan and his buddies stayed away from him
    because they knew God’s sword-angels were the
    toughest angels in the galaxy. They found that out
    when they tried to have a war in heaven and throw
    the Lord out. They had been the ones thrown out. You
    just don’t mess with the Lord’s angels—not that they
    would ever hurt anyone who loves the Lord. In fact,
    the Bible says God has one of these dudes keeping an
    eye on every boy and girl.
    The world was no longer perfect, but Adam and
    Eve tried to make a new life and a new family. The
    Lord told them to have lots of children, so that was
    what they decided to do. Their first two boys were
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    called Cain and Abel, and they were very different
    guys. Abel really liked to look after sheep so he
    became a shepherd, someone who looks after sheep.
    That makes sense, doesn’t it? Cain liked to grow
    things so he grew lots of wheat for making flour and
    bread, and he grew vegetables and stuff.
    One day Cain and Abel brought offerings to
    give to the Lord to ask for the Lord’s blessing on
    their work. Now Abel brought some meat, and Cain
    thought, “I’m gonna bring whatever I want so I will
    bring some wheat grain.” The Lord was pleased with
    Abel’s offering but not with Cain’s, and Cain became
    angry about this. So the Lord warned him to be careful
    that his bad moods didn’t make him do evil things.
    Cain didn’t listen; some people just never do.
    Now Satan had heard what went on, and he decided
    to put a few very nasty thoughts into Cain’s head.
    Cain started thinking some very bad things such as
    “the Lord likes my brother more than me so I think I
    will try to get rid of him.” So Cain had a plan, a very
    evil plan. He may have thought it up all by himself,
    but I think perhaps he had some help from you-
    know-who. Cain didn’t have to listen to these bad
    ideas, but his anger started to control him. One day
    Cain asked Abel to go out to the fields with him, and
    Abel went. When Abel wasn’t looking Cain picked
    up a big rock and smashed it down on Abel’s head,
    and he fell to the ground and died. He had a big cut
    on his head, and the blood went into the ground, and
    the Lord knew Abel had died.
    Cain went home, and the Lord went to him and
    asked him, “Where is your brother Abel?”
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    Cain said, “I don’t know where he is, and it isn’t
    my job to look after him anyway.”
    The Lord told Cain that Abel’s blood had called
    to him from the ground, and this meant the Lord
    knew that Cain had killed him. The Lord told Cain he
    must be punished for killing his brother; now when
    he tried to grow his vegetables and other produce he
    would have heaps of weeds and stuff. The Lord also
    sent him away from his family to live in the land of
    Nod. Funny name, I reckon; but Nod was a real place
    in those days, and that was where he went.
    Old Satan was pleased, of course, because he
    had seen the first person kill another person. Satan
    loves to see evil things, especially people hurting
    each other and rebelling against God. Cain left his
    family, and he and his wife went to the land of Nod
    and made a home there.
    Now Adam lived to be a very old man; in fact he
    lived to be 930 years old. People lived much longer
    in those days because they didn’t get sick and didn’t
    have any bad germs around.
    One of Adam’s great-great-great-grandchildren
    was called Enoch. Enoch lived until he was