One more singleton chapter and then I'll group a few together for the great flood.
In Chapter 4, Adam and Eve have a family - two bouncing baby boys, Cain and Abel. They grow up and bring offerings to the Lord. Abel's is suitable (animals) but Cain's is not (I guess plants since he was a farmer). I don't know why the offering wasn't acceptable to God but I guess it really pissed Cain off because the next thing you know, Cain killed Abel.
Cain and God work something out where God "set a mark upon Cain" so anyone seeking vengeance will be punished sevenfold.
The rest of this chapter gives quite a list of names of the descendants of Cain, staring with Enoch and ending with Enos. Everyone listed is male but one has to assume females are showing up too because Eve can't be the mother of all these descendants. So who else was having kids early on when Adam and Eve got going? If no one, then someone was having kids with a sibling, at least initially. I suppose the authors had to leave out some names and surely unrelated, fertile females were showing up elsewhere.
We end this chapter with the arrival of Seth's son Enos.
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