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Tubal-Cain

And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle. 21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ. 22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah. I'f you notice in this passage names 3 men but only two of them are fathers.    Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.   Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ The 3rd however is not a father.  He is Tubal-Cain.  If you know history you know that the ability to forge Iron was not discovered till many ages in the future.   In other words the science of iron was forgotten.   The skills of Jabal and Jubal were remembered however and so what we have here is a different meaning for the word father.    Despite the fact that Jabal and Jubal's descendents died in the flood they are