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“And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground” (Genesis 4:2).
When you study the story of mankind in school, sometimes you may be taught that men were originally “hunters and gatherers,” living in primitive dwellings like caves, and not knowing how to grow crops and keep animals. Then they will tell you that later, men progressed and began to grow crops, keep domestic animals, and settle down in one place.
However, we do not read this in the Word of God. Right from the beginning men like Cain and Abel knew how to keep domestic animals like lambs and sheep, and how to work the ground and grow crops. However, when men gave up God, in some cases God allowed them to decline in their knowledge, and then they lived as hunters and gatherers. When man gives up God and decides to worship idols, he often loses what knowledge he has, and tends to live a degraded and a somewhat disorderly life. However, this is not what God intended for him, for God is a God of order.
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