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Seth, [a] in the Abrahamic religions, was the third son of Adam and Eve. The Hebrew Bible names two of his siblings (although it also states that he had others): his brothers Cain and Abel . According to Genesis 4:25 , Seth was born after Abel's murder by Cain, and Eve believed that God had appointed him as a replacement for 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 ...
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. Out of jealousy, Cain killed his brother, for which he was punished by God with the curse and mark of Cain.
A third son, Seth, is born to Adam and Eve, and Adam had "other sons and daughters" (Genesis 5:4). [46] Genesis 5 lists Adam's descendants from Seth to Noah with their ages at the birth of their first sons and their ages at death. Adam's age at death is given as 930 years.
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.
Born as the second son of Adam and Eve, the first two humans created by God, [1] he was a shepherd who offered his firstborn flock to God as a religious offering. God accepted Abel's offering but not the offering of his older brother Cain , leading Cain to stone Abel to death out of jealousy.
Sons of Adam or son of Adam may refer to: Cain and Abel, the first and second sons of Adam and Eve; Seth, the third son of Adam and Eve; Son of man, or son of Adam, a biblical phrase; Bani Adam (Persian: بنیآدم; Arabic: بني آدم; Hebrew: בן־אדם; lit. 'Sons of Adam'), a Persian poem by Saadi Shirazi
His father Mahalalel, great-grandson of Seth, son of Adam, was 65 years old when Jared was born. [3] In the apocryphal Book of Jubilees, his mother's name is Dinah.. Jubilees states that Jared married a woman whose name is variously spelled as Bereka, Baraka, and Barakah, and the Bible speaks of Jared having become father to other sons and daughters (Genesis 5:19).