Ge 4:25 And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and named him Seth, "For God has appointed another seed for me instead of Abel, whom Cain killed."

26 And as for Seth, to him also a son was born; and he named him Enosh. Then men began to call on the name of the LORD.

In contrast to Cain's descendants, we now have here presented before us the godly line of Seth.

Seth is a type or picture of the Lord Jesus Christ resurrected. In Abel, we have Him murdered. In Seth, we have Him resurrected so to speak.

Seth's line was characterized by godliness. They were God-centered people. There were, no doubt, advances in industry, civilization and technology like that of the line of Cain's, but their primary and main pursuit is God.

The word "call" can also mean proclaim. It was during this time that a revival of sorts took place. Men began to call on the Lord and proclaim Him.

Moses is teaching his Israelite readers that they should trace their line in Seth and follow his and his descendants example. They are to separate from the pagan nations and live God-centered lives.

Ge 4:17 And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. And he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son-Enoch.

18 To Enoch was born Irad; and Irad begot Mehujael, and Mehujael begot Methushael, and Methushael begot Lamech.

19 Then Lamech took for himself two wives: the name of one was Adah, and the name of the second was Zillah.

20 And Adah bore Jabal. He was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.

21 His brother's name was Jubal. He was the father of all those who play the harp and flute.

22 And as for Zillah, she also bore Tubal-Cain, an instructor of every craftsman in bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah.

23 Then Lamech said to his wives: "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Wives of Lamech, listen to my speech! For I have killed a man for wounding me, Even a young man for hurting me.

24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Then Lamech seventy-sevenfold."

Here we have Moses tracing before his Israelite readers the spread of a godless society. Though they are religious (the name of God "El" appears in some of Cain's offspring in the Hebrew) yet they are characterized by materialism, secularism, antinomianism and humanism. They are people who are absorbed with earthly things.

Their activities and pursuits in life are primarily focused on non-spiritual things unlike what we see later on in verses 25 and 26. There is nothing wrong with material progress. But if we make it the primary aim and pursuit of our lives then we have gone overboard.

Though they advanced in agriculture, industry, music and in civilization, they degenerated spiritually and morally speaking. They were not God-centered people. Aside from being a bigamist, Lamech was even proud of his sin. This is the first in the world to boasts about his crime.

Moses was tracing the forefathers of the godless nations around Israel, teaching the Israelites not to follow their ways.

Ge 4:13 And Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is greater than I can bear!

14 "Surely You have driven me out this day from the face of the ground; I shall be hidden from Your face; I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth, and it will happen that anyone who finds me will kill me."

15 And the LORD said to him, "Therefore, whoever kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold." And the LORD set a mark on Cain, lest anyone finding him should kill him.

16 Then Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and dwelt in the land of Nod on the east of Eden.

Cain was more concerned about his punishment than he was with his sin. Unrepentant people are like that. They bewail their punishment but not their rebellion against God.

His conscience was actively working, he knew that justice was out to get him. But God, in grace, placed a protection over Cain. It is useless to speculate about what the sign was. God never told us what it is in His Word.

Cain's judgment and preservation was typical of what would happen to the Jewish nation later on.

Moses is teaching them that even though they may not keep God's covenant, God, in grace, would still preserve them as a nation. Israel became disobedient, murdered the prophets that God sent them and yet God still preserved them. Israel would continue to exists.

Ultimately, this was a picture of Israel murdering their Brother, the Lord Jesus Christ, as a result, they were dispersed and scattered throughout all nations. And yet Israel is still marvelously preserved by God.

What happened to Israel is very similar to what happened to Cain.

Ge 4:11 "So now you are cursed from the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

12 "When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. A fugitive and a vagabond you shall be on the earth."

This punishment of Cain is to buttress to Israel's mind the command: "Thou shall not murder."

Abel was a type of the Lord Jesus Christ. Cain was the type of the nation Israel.

Israel, later on, would murder their Great Brother, the Lord Jesus Christ. The result was God's punishment of their land and upon themselves. Israel became a barren land. And they were scattered all over the earth. They became the international squatters of the world.

Ge 4:8 Now Cain talked with Abel his brother; and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.

9 Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?"

10 And He said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries out to Me from the ground.

Six times here in verses 8 to 11 the word brother is repeated over and over again. The whole thing is intentional. It is to show the seriousness of Cain's sin. Cain was not being his brother's keeper, instead, he was his brother's murderer.

Moses here emphasizes the nature of murder---since we all came from Adam and Eve,  murder then is essentially the premediated killing of a brother or a sister.

The purpose here is to reinforce to Israel the command: "Thou shall not murder."

Ge 4:6 So the LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen?

7 "If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it."

If Cain did well, that is, if he offered correctly, he would have been accepted.

Moses is teaching his Israelite readers the importance of a blood sacrifice. They will be accepted on the merit of their sacrifice, a sacrifice which looked forward ultimately to the sacrifice of Christ.

Chapter 4

Here in this chapter, we have Moses showing his Israelite readers the effects of the Fall. Chapter 3 was the cause, chapter 4 is the effect.

He also traces for his readers the two lines of humanity---the line of Abel  and the line of Cain. We read of their pursuits and priorities in life.

Ge 4:1 Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, "I have acquired a man from the LORD."

2 Then she bore again, this time his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

3  And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to the LORD.

4 Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat. And the LORD respected Abel and his offering,

5 but He did not respect Cain and his offering. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.

 Abel and his offering was acceptable to God because it was done in faith.

There is no question that both of them learned about the tunics of skin that God made for their parents. No doubt, Adam and Eve told them about it. An animal had to be sacrificed to cover their parents' sin and shame.

Abel was not disobedient to this revelation, he did well, as an expression of his faith, he "brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat." It was a sacrifice that pointed to the substitutionary sacrifice of the coming Deliverer.

Cain, apparently, saw no need of it. He was disobedient to the revelation and brought a bloodless sacrifice instead.

Moses is teaching his Israelite readers the importance of a blood sacrifice for sin.

Ge 3:20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

21 Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.

22 Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever" -

23 therefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.

24 So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

Adam believed in the promise of God that his wife would bear the Seed, who will be man's deliverer. His faith made him call his wife Eve, which means life or life-giver. The Deliverer would be her great, great, great grandson, her Seed.

God responded by clothing them with tunics of skin. Their fig leaves would not do. An animal had to be sacrificed to make this possible. This is a picture of salvation.

Man knew good and evil in a bad sense. He knows what is good but does not have the power to do it. He knows evil experientially and has the propensity and inclination to it.

God in judgment and mercy had to banish them out of the garden of Eden. The garden of Eden was the "Holy of holies" in their time. God's special presence was there. Because of sin, they had to be driven away from it. No sinner can dwell there.

This is to teach Moses' Israelite readers the need for a sacrifice, that sin separates from God, that God is a holy God and their need for a Deliverer.

Ge 3:14 So the LORD God said to the serpent: "Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you shall go, And you shall eat dust All the days of your life.

15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel."

16 To the woman He said: "I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; In pain you shall bring forth children; Your desire shall be for your husband, And he shall rule over you."

17 Then to Adam He said, "Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it': "Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life.

18 Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, And you shall eat the herb of the field.

19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return."


In chapter 1, Moses shows his Israelite readers God as Creator. In chapter 2, he shows God as Provider. Here in these verses, he shows God as Judge. Here, we see the Judge in action. He is seen issuing sentences.

The serpent which was viewed highly and was the object of worship among pagan nations is depicted as being cursed more than any other beast on earth.

The animal kingdom was drastically affected but the cattle is mentioned specifically to show that even the cattle, which was also a beast that the pagans worshiped and held highly, was also cursed.

Moses shows the folly of worshiping these beasts.

Satan, the spirit behind the serpent, was also cursed. He destroyed Man, and so, tit for tat, it is through Man that he will be destroyed. The seed in verse 15 is ultimately a prophecy about the coming Messiah who will fatally wound Satan.

The woman will have pain, sorrow and labor in bearing children. He manipulated her husband but her husband will rule over her.
There will be marital conflict.

The expression "Your desire shall be for your husband, And he shall rule over you" refers to marital struggle.  

In Genesis 4:7, we read these words: "If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it."

Sin is seen here as a crouching beast ready to pounce on Cain to dominate him. But Cain must rule over it. It is a picture of conflict and struggle.

Adam brought sin on the entire human race by eating the forbidden fruit, now they will suffer in order to eat. Meaningful work becomes hard labor. Man rebelled against God, he did not cooperate with God, and so now, the ground will refuse to cooperate with him. There will be frustrations and disappointments in working for a living.

This is Moses highlighting a stipulation in the Mosaic covenant. If the Israelites keep the covenant and obey it, the ground will be blessed and bear plenty for them. If they disobeyed it, the land of milk and honey will become barren.

Last of all, there will be death. Adam and Eve wanted to be like God in a sinful way, but they are brought down to their level. They will return to dust.

Ge 3:9 Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, "Where are you?"

10 So he said, "I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself."

11 And He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?"

12 Then the man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."

13 And the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

When God asked: "Where are you?" He was not asking for their geographical location. He knew where they were.

The question was addressed to their consciences. God was in effect saying: "Now, that you have disobeyed My voice, where are you now spiritually in relation to Me?"

God confronted them with their sin and wanted them to repent and own their sin and confess it openly to Him. Instead of doing that, they passed the buck, they shifted the blame.

Adam blamed Eve for their Fall, but ultimately blamed God of it all. He said: "The woman whom YOU gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."

As if saying: "If only YOU did not give me Eve, I would not have eaten the fruit which You forbade me to eat." The woman in turn did not fully own up to her sin by blaming the serpent.

Ge 3:6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.

8 And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

Disobeying God's Word is never good for us nor does it make us wise.

On the contrary, it results in shame, guilt, fear and alienation from God.

Ge 3:1 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Has God indeed said, 'You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?"

2 And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden;

3 "but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.'"

4 Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die.

5 "For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."


There are four things that Moses wants to teach here to his Israelite readers:

First, the serpent or the snake that the pagans worshiped during their time was in fact the one used by Satan in causing the Fall of Man. Snake worship is satanic.

Second, Satan often tempts us by making us believe that there are no dire consequences in disobeying God's Word. The denial of the judgment to come is satanic. God will surely and certainly punish Israel if they do not keep the Mosaic covenant.

Third, it is important to be established in the Word of God. Eve was not established in it and so she became an easy prey for Satan's temptations.

Israel should keep in mind Deuteronomy 4:2 which states: "You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

Fourth, Israel should learn that God's commandments are for their own good. His commandments are for their welfare. Satan would have them believe otherwise. He wants them to believe that God is withholding something good from them.

De 6:24 'And the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that He might preserve us alive, as it is this day.

Genesis Chapter 3

In Genesis 3, we have Moses tracing for his Israelite readers the ultimate cause of the presence of suffering, hardships pain and death in the world. He shows that all these are the results and effects of disobeying God.

The purpose is to encourage obedience and discourage disobedience.

This chapter also highlights and emphasizes the threatened punishment stipulated in the Mosaic covenant of being driven out of the land of Promise if they disobey God. Just as Adam and Eve were driven out of Paradise, so will they be driven out of the Promise Land if they choose to live independently from God.

Ge 2:18 And the LORD God said, "It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him."

19 Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name.

20 So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him.

21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.

22 Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.

23 And Adam said: "This is now bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man."

24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Moses wrote this passage to teach his Israelite readers God's ideal for marriage. It was to buttress and emphasize the command: "Thou shalt not commit adultery."

God saw Adam's need of a companion and a helper comparable to him. So he made Adam realize it.

He brought animals to him. We are not to asume that all the animals in the world were brought to him. It's reasonable to assume that God brought only the animals in Adam's immediate environs. Adam's sovereignty over the animals is shown by the fact that he named them.

In naming them, he exercised intellect. We have reason to believe that he named them according to their respective natures. You see, God is not against the study of nature. He is not against science. He is for it.

They all came by pairs, male and female, and Adam realized that they all had mates comparable to them, but he had none. He had no mate with the same nature as his.

Then God put Adam to sleep and took something from his side and made it into a woman. Marriage is the oneness of a man and a woman. This is shown by the man leaving his parents and cleaving to his wife and becoming one flesh with her.

This oneness is cultivated by each partner's openness and intimacy to one another.

Here is the ideal marriage:

* It is for companionship.
* It is the man taking the lead in doing God's will (during this time it was about tending and keeping the garden) with the woman helping and assisting the man in doing it.
* It is the oneness of the man and the woman.
* It entails commitment.
* It entails openness and intimacy.

Ge 2:9 And out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Ge 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;

17 "but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."

Verses 9,16 and 17

Moral and spiritual development was good for man. His will must be exercised towards God. God wants a loving relationship, and a genuiene love relationship must come from man willingly and voluntarily obeying God. And so God tested him here.

There was nothing intrinsically and inherently bad in the fruit itself. It was independence from God, disobedience to God's command, that brought death.

Sin is basically independence from God. And when we do that, we separate ourselves from Him, the source of life, and the result would be death. The very moment man disobeyed God, spiritual separation (death) resulted. Man spiritually cut himself off from the source of life. His physical death was the result of his spiritual separation from God.

Here Moses was emphasizing to his Israelite readers that obedience results in blessing but disobedience results in punishment and death.

This was to encourage and exhort the Israelites to keep the covenant that they made with God.

Ge 2:8 The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed.

9 And out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

10 Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads.

11 The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

12 And the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and the onyx stone are there.

13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush.

14 The name of the third river is Hiddekel; it is the one which goes toward the east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

15 Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.

In these verses (8 to 15) we have God providing man a home, sustenance and meaningful occupation. Through his occupation as a gardener, he was to worship God.

His home was a garden of delight and pleasure. It was situated in a locality wherein there were many natural resources to harness and use for art and ornamentation.

This was to teach Israel that the God who delivered them from Egypt, provided them a home in the Promise Land (flowing with milk and honey) and gave them the responsibility to work on it and cultivate it is the very same God who provided for Adam a land to live in.

Whatever man has were all provided and given by God. Hence the command not to steal and covet.

They (Israel) were not to seek other gods for these things. God is their provider.

Ge 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

Here Moses shows that it was God who created Man.

He was the one who created Man like a master artist and He was the one who provided Man with life.

Murder is the unlawful destruction of what He formed and created.

Ge 2:4  This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

5 before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground;

6 but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.

Moses shows his Israelite readers here that God is the provider of Man.

He was the one who grew plants and herbs for man. There was no rain at the beginning, there was no man to work on the ground, so God caused a mist to go up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground. Then He caused the growth of vegetation for man on the third day.

All was done by His divine power on behalf of Man. No other diety or god did it. God alone is their resource.

Ge 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished.

2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.

3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

The idea that God rested does not imply that God was exhausted and weary after six days of creation. No. Rest simply means cessation. There's nothing more to create. What He wanted to create has all been created. There are no new species to create. There are no new laws of nature to establish, so He ceased.

God ceased from His creative work, but He now proceeds to carry on His sustaining work. At this time, God did not command man to keep the Sabbath. Moses was simply telling His Israelite readers what God did after six days of creation.

After their deliverance from Egypt, God then through Moses instructed the Israelites to keep the Sabbath.

It was to regularly remind them that the God who delivered them from Egypt was the same God who created the universe. They are to constantly bear in mind that their God is both the Creator and the Deliverer.

A special day (the Sabbath) was set aside to emphasize this. In the beginning, God worked and rested. In Egypt, Israel labored and now they are to rest and cease from being slaves. A gift from God.

Now, they are to ceremonially celebrate this during the Sabbath day. Moses wrote these verses to teach Israel to keep and sanctify the Sabbath that God has given to them in memory of His creative and redemptive work.

Note: The marking day for the old creation was the Sabbath for Israel. The marking day for the new creation is the Lord's Day when Christ resurrected from the dead. The Church is not of the old creation, rather, it is of the new creation.

Ge 1:29 And God said, "See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.

30 "Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food"; and it was so.

31 Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Moses here shows that it is God who provides man with food. In pagan religions in Egypt, they worshiped a false god of vegetation. Moses is refuting that belief here.

In pagan religions, man brought food to their gods. Here Moses shows that it is God who provides food for man. Man was a vegetarian before the Fall.

Ancient religions say that matter is inherently evil. The Bible says otherwise. God surveyed His creation and was very satisfied with it. It was very good.

Ge 1:26  Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

In these verses, Moses was showing the Israelites the dignity, responsibility and the privilege of man. Man was created in the image and likeness of God and was given authority over all the creatures on the earth.

Back in Egypt, instead of ruling over these creatures, the Egyptians prostrated and worshiped them. They worshiped birds, creeping things and cattle in Egypt. Sin has a way of reversing God's decreed order.

Moses is supporting the first and second commandment of the Decalogue here. Man is not to worship these creatures. He is not to have other gods. He is also not to make images and representations of God out from these creatures. They can never represent God.

The closest thing that can represent God on the earth is man himself. But he himself is a creature of God and therefore not to be worshiped.

These verses also show that blessings of fertility come from God. Fertility gods were worshipped back in Egypt, thinking that these deities could help them with multiply their flocks and help them in bearing offspring for themselves. Moses says in effect: "It is God who gives blessings of children."

Ge 1:24  Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind"; and it was so.

25 And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Again, the purpose of Moses was to show Israel that the things that the pagans around them worshiped, the cattle, the creeping animals and the beast of the earth are God's creation.

They are not to be worshiped as the Egyptians did back in Egypt.

Ge 1:20 Then God said, "Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens."

21 So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Ge 1:22 And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."

23 So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

The purpose of Moses here in verses 20 to 23 is to show that God was the one who created these creatures. In pagan cultures, these creatures were worshiped, instead of being viewed as mere creatures.

Moses in effect says here: "Don't be worshiping these creatures. Know that they are creatures of the God who delivered you from Egypt."

Moses also shows that fertility and abudance is the result of the blessing of God. They don't have to worhip some other god in order to be blessed with abundance. God Himself is the one who blesses with abudundance.

In Egypt, they worshipped fertility gods. And Moses here shoots that idea down.