Show Don't Tell: Genesis 4:17-26

Instead of saying "Cain's descendants built civilization," let them hear the hammer and the harp. Cain builds a city—walls against the wilderness, the first attempt to create security through stone. Watch the generations unfold: Jabal pitches the first tents, flocks grazing under portable shelters. Jubal's fingers discover that stretched strings vibrate into music—art emerging from a cursed line. And Tubal-Cain? Hear the ring of hammer on bronze, the hiss of hot iron quenched in water. Weapons and tools forged together. But Lamech—feel the chill when he speaks. He has killed a young man for wounding him and boasts to his wives in poetry. "If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold." Violence multiplying. Meanwhile, Seth is born, and his line begins to "call on the name of the LORD."