Genesis 4:22
Sella also brought forth Tubalcain, who was a hammerer and artificer in every work of brass and iron. And the sister of Tubalcain was Noema.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Sella quoque genuit Tubalcain, qui fuit malleator et faber in cuncta opera æris et ferri. Soror vero Tubalcain, Noëma.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Σελλὰ δὲ ἔτεκεν καὶ αὐτὴ τὸν Θόβελ· καὶ ἦν σφυροκόπος χαλκεὺς χαλκοῦ καὶ σιδήρου. ἀδελφὴ δὲ Θόβελ Νοεμά.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְצִלָּ֣ה גַם הִ֗וא יָֽלְדָה֙ אֶת תּ֣וּבַל קַ֔יִן לֹטֵ֕שׁ כָּל חֹרֵ֥שׁ נְחֹ֖שֶׁת וּבַרְזֶ֑ל וַֽאֲח֥וֹת תּֽוּבַל קַ֖יִן נַֽעֲמָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Noema, who is supposed to have invented the art of spinning. (Calmet)
All these worthy people were distinguished for their proficiency in the arts, while they neglected the study of religion and virtue. (Haydock)
The inventors of arts among the Greeks lived mostly after the siege of Troy. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine City of God, Of the Two Fathers and Leaders Who Sprang from One Progenitor
Since, then, Adam was the father of both lines, the father, that is to say, both of the line which belonged to the earthly, and of that which belonged to the heavenly city, when Abel was slain, and by his death exhibited a marvellous mystery, there were henceforth two lines proceeding from two fathers, Cain and Seth, and in those sons of theirs, whom it behoved to register, the tokens of these two cities began to appear more distinctly. For Cain begat Enoch, in whose name he built a city, an earthly one, which was not from home in this world, but rested satisfied with its temporal peace and happiness. …