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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.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 November 2024. 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 ...
The narrative of the curse of Cain is found in the text of Genesis 4:11–16. The curse was the result of Cain murdering his brother, Abel, and lying about the murder to God. [2] When Cain spilled his brother's blood, the earth became cursed as soon as the blood hit the ground. In a sense, the earth was left "drinking Abel's blood". [3]
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 .
The Naamah mentioned in the Bible is a Cainite, a descendant in the lineage of Cain (the daughter of Lamech and sister of Tubal-cain). However, a Sethite Naamah is named as the wife of Noah (see Rashi 's commentary on Genesis 4:22), and a daughter of Enoch , Noah's great-grandfather, in the early Jewish midrash Genesis Rabba (23.3) [ 3 ] [ 4 ...
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.
The German orientalist Walter Beltz alternatively proposed that the story of Cain and Abel was not originally about the murder of a brother, but a myth about the murder of a god's child. In his reading of Genesis 4:1, Eve conceived Cain by Adam, and her second son Abel by another man, this being Yahweh. [37]
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 .