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Originally Posted by Freedom
This is an interesting possibility regarding the meaning of Genesis 4:26. Quite honestly, I was a bit shocked to see that it could be interpreted in a way completely opposite from I am accustomed to. I had never given such a possibility any thought before.
Sure enough, I found at least one translation that actually translates the verse that way: Seth also fathered a son, whom he named Enosh. At that time, profaning the name of the LORD began. (ISV)
It's probably fair to say that either possibility is just as likely, however,
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I'm skeptical, and not because of my LC background.
Gen 4.25 thru chapter 5 is the lineage of Seth in a positive contrast to the lineage of Cain recorded in 4.16-24.
If 4.26 were displaced into the lineage of Cain, I might consider the alternative translation. That's not to say that "calling on Jehovah" is definitive, since another says, "preaching in the name ..."