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It is precisely at that point that the civilized arts are said to have begun, represented by the four children of Zillah and Adah: pastoralists (Jabal), instrumentalists (Jubal), metallurgists (Tubal-Cain), and vocalists (Naamah).
Zillah: Bible. 2009
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A surgeon, perfect in the art of Tubal-Cain, thrusts into me a sharp instrument; and cutting into the perineum, seizes the stone with his pincers, which breaks during the endeavors, by the necessary laws of mechanism; and owing to the same mechanism, I die in frightful torments.
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Fittingly his sons were culture-heroes: Jabal the tentsman, Jubal the inventor of harp and organ, and Tubal-Cain the metal - worker.
MYTH IN BIBLICAL TIMES FRANCIS LEE UTLEY 1968
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Tubal-Cain is described as "An instructor of every artificer in brass and iron."
A History of Pantomime R. J. Broadbent
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H.S. W. -- The Bible informs us that Tubal-Cain, the son of Lamech and
Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887 Various
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Greeks ', the chemical prescription wherewith an Egyptian princess darkened her eyes, or study the pictured hearth, bellows, oven, crucibles with which the followers of Tubal-Cain smelted their ore.
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The use of iron was known in the time of Tubal-Cain, son of Lamech, who antedated Noah.
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Tubal-cain was rightly named, for he completed the work of his ancestor Cain.
The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1 Louis Ginzberg 1913
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Amenoteph, all the dark-skinned rulers of the country of the pyramids, and the royal sepulchers; on a still higher platform sat enthroned the kings Chronos, and Xixouthros, who were contemporary with the deluge, and Tubal-Cain, who preceded it.
Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906
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Tubal-Cain is the first-mentioned worker in iron (Gen. 4: 22).
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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