Land of Nod

[1] וַיֵּ֥צֵא קַ֖יִן מִלִּפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וַיֵּ֥שֶׁב בְּאֶֽרֶץ־נֹ֖וד קִדְמַת־עֵֽדֶן׃‎Genesis 4:17 relates that after arriving in the Land of Nod, Cain's wife had a son with him, Enoch, in whose name he built the first city.)[4] A Greek version of Nod written as Ναίν (Nain) appearing in the Onomastica Vaticana possibly derives from the plural נחים‎ (naḥim), which relates to resting and sleeping.[12] The name "Land of Nod" was accorded locally to the northerly 3,000 acres (1,214.1 hectares) of the Great Plot lying north of Woburn, Massachusetts, at its foundation in 1640–42, "the name being probably suggested by a comparison of its forlorn condition — so far remote from church ordinances — with the Nod to which Cain wandered when he went 'from the presence of the Lord'."[14][5] The first recorded use of the phrase to mean "sleep" comes from Jonathan Swift in his Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation (1737)[15] and Gulliver's Travels.Later instances of this usage appear: in "Brother Rabbit and His Famous Foot" (story #30 in Joel Chandler Harris' Nights with Uncle Remus 1883 collection), in which the narrator says that the old African teller Daddy Jack, having just fallen asleep, has reached the land of Nod;[16] in the poem "The Land of Nod" by Robert Louis Stevenson from the A Child's Garden of Verses (1885) collection.[17] In the Arc of a Scythe series by Neal Shusterman, the Land of Nod is mythologized as containing a mythical fail-safe against the Scythedom and becomes critically important to the plot of the third book.
Map by Thomas Stackhouse showing postulated locations for Adamic locations, including the Land of Nod (south central part of map, identified with Susiana ).
Cain fleeing before Jehovah's Curse , by Fernand-Anne Piestre Cormon , c. 1880
Gate to Land of Nod Road in Headley Down, Hampshire, UK
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