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  2. Cain - Wikipedia

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    Cain [a] is a biblical figure in the Book of Genesis within Abrahamic religions. He is the elder brother of Abel, and the firstborn son of Adam and Eve, the first couple within the Bible. [1] He was a farmer who gave an offering of his crops to God. However, God was not pleased and favored Abel's offering over Cain's.

  3. 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 .

  4. 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 ...

  5. Aclima - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. Land of Nod - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  7. 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.

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  9. Abel - Wikipedia

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    The story of Cain's murder of Abel and its consequences is told in Genesis 4:1–18: [2] Now the man knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, "I have produced a man with the help of the Lord." [3] Next she bore his brother Abel. [4] Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a tiller of the ground.