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Azura (also Aclima or Balbira) was the daughter of Adam and Eve, the twin of Abel, and both the wife and sister of Seth, as described in chapter 4 of the Book of Jubilees. [1] [2] 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.
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.
Furthermore, the Panarion of Epiphanius (c. 375) names Noah's wife as Barthenos, while the c. 5th-century Ge'ez work Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan calls Noah's wife "Haikal, the daughter of Abaraz, of the daughters of the sons of Enos" — whom some authors have connected with Epiphanius' Barthenos (i.e., Bath-Enos, daughter of Enos). [7]
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Abel [a] is a biblical figure in the Book of Genesis within the Abrahamic religions.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.