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  2. Cain - Wikipedia

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    The expression "Cain-coloured beard" (Cain and Judas were traditionally considered to have red or yellow hair) [58] is used in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor (1602). [ 57 ] Lord Byron rewrote and dramatized the story in the play Cain (1821), viewing Cain as symbolic of a sanguine temperament , provoked by Abel's hypocrisy and sanctimony.

  3. Genealogies of Genesis - Wikipedia

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    Genesis names three children of Adam and Eve, Cain, Abel and Seth. A genealogy tracing the descendants of Cain is given in Genesis 4, while the line from Seth down to Noah appears in Genesis 5. Scholars have noted similarities between these descents: most of the names in each are variants of those in the other, though their order differs, with ...

  4. Lamech (descendant of Cain) - Wikipedia

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    Lamech and Cain, 1524 engraving by Lucas van Leyden Lamech (/ ˈ l eɪ m ɪ k /; [1] Hebrew: לֶמֶךְ Lémeḵ, in pausa לָמֶךְ ‎ Lā́meḵ) is a figure appearing in the Old Testament's Book of Genesis, where he is the seventh generation from Adam and father of Jabal, the first breeder of livestock, Tubal-Cain, the first metalworker, Jubal, the first musician, and Naamah.

  5. Cain and Abel - Wikipedia

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    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 Eve. [1] Cain, the firstborn, was a farmer, and his brother Abel was a shepherd. The brothers made sacrifices, each from his own fields, to God. God had regard for Abel's offering, but had no regard [2] for ...

  6. Generations of Adam - Wikipedia

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    The Sethite line begins with Adam. [1] The Sethite line in Genesis 5 extends to Noah and his three sons. [2]The Cainite line in Genesis 4 runs to Naamah. [citation needed] The seventh generation Lamech descended from Cain is described as the father of Jabal and Jubal (from his first wife Adah) and Tubal-cain and Naamah (from his second wife, Zillah).

  7. Genealogies in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    The book of Genesis records the descendants of Adam and Eve. The enumerated genealogy in chapters 4, 5, and 11, reports the lineal male descent to Abraham, including the age at which each patriarch fathered his named son and the number of years he lived thereafter. The genealogy for Cain is given in chapter 4, and the genealogy for Seth is

  8. Enoch (son of Cain) - Wikipedia

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    Either Cain built a city and named it after the mighty Enoch, or else Enoch built a city. [1] In the King James Bible , the text makes it clear that Cain built the city and named it after his son. According to the Book of Jubilees 4:9, Enoch's mother/aunt was named Awan .

  9. Naamah (Genesis) - Wikipedia

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    Naamah (Hebrew: נַעֲמָה – Naʿămā) is mentioned in the Bible, in Genesis 4:22, as a descendant of Cain.She was the only mentioned daughter of Lamech and Zillah and their youngest mentioned child; her brother was Tubal-cain, while Jabal and Jubal were her half-brothers, sons of Lamech's other wife Adah.