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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 Cain's. Cain killed Abel and God cursed Cain, sentencing him to a life of transience.
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.
His story is mentioned in the Quran, though without a name, where he and his brother Abel offer sacrifices; Abel's sacrifice was accepted while Cain's was not. Cain gets angry and threatens to murder his brother, but Abel tries to console him, saying that God only accepts sacrifices from the God-fearing and that he wouldn't try to harm Cain.
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 .
Adam wished Cain to marry Abel's twin sister and Abel to marry Cain's. Cain did not consent to this arrangement, and Adam proposed to refer the question to God by means of a sacrifice. God rejected Cain's sacrifice to signify his disapproval of his marriage to Aclima, his twin sister, and Cain slew his brother in a fit of jealousy. [1] [2] [3]
Cain kills Abel, a fratricide illustrated by Gustave Doré ("And 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 slew him.") [1]
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. God took Abel because Adam and Eve's relationship was more principled than the first relationship between Eve and the archangel. ...
To avoid being killed, a patriarch (Abraham in 12:10–20 and 20:1–18 and Isaac in 26:6–11) tells a king that his wife is only his sister and not also his wife. (Genesis 12:11-13 and Genesis 20:11-12) In chapter 25, Jacob tricks Esau into selling his birthright for a pot of lentil stew.