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Cain fleeing before Jehovah's Curse, by Fernand-Anne Piestre Cormon, c. 1880 The Land of Nod ( Hebrew : אֶרֶץ־נוֹד – ʾereṣ-Nōḏ ) is a place mentioned in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible , located "on the east of Eden " ( qiḏmaṯ-ʿḖḏen ), where Cain was exiled by God after Cain had murdered his brother Abel .
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 January 2025. First two sons of Adam and Eve This article is about the first and second sons of Adam and Eve. For other uses, see Cain and Abel (disambiguation). Cain slaying Abel, by Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1600 In the biblical Book of Genesis, Cain [a] and Abel [b] are the first two sons of Adam and ...
Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a tiller of the ground. In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground, and Abel for his part brought of the firstlings of his flock, their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, but for Cain and his offering he had no regard.
Cain represented Satan, and Abel represented sinless Adam. Hence God placed Abel, the second son, in the internal position. Abel represented the second love between Adam and Eve, which contained fewer evil elements, while Cain was the fruit of the first love.
Edwin Roscoe Mullins – Cain or My Punishment is Greater than I can Bear (Genesis 4:13), about 1899. Print by Wilhelm Groß of Cain with mark of a Chi Rho (1956/57). The narrative of the curse of Cain is found in the text of Genesis 4:11–16. The curse was the result of Cain murdering his brother, Abel, and lying about the murder to God. [2]
A heavenly law was cited after the narrative of Cain's death saying: With the instrument with which a man kills his neighbour with the same shall he be killed; after the manner that he wounded him, in like manner shall they deal with him. [35] A Talmudic tradition says that after Cain had murdered his brother, God made a horn grow on his head.
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Genesis 4:17 states that after he had killed Abel, "Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch". In an effort to explain where Cain and Abel acquired wives, some traditional sources stated that each child of Adam and Eve was born with a twin who became their mate.