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Miguel de Unamuno's 1917 novel Abel Sánchez: A Story of a Passion is a re-telling of the Cain and Abel story. [37] John Steinbeck's 1952 novel East of Eden (also a 1955 film) refers in its title to Cain's exile and contains discussions of the Cain and Abel story which then play out in the plot. [38]
Cain and Abel were two brothers, the first sons of Adam and Eve. Cain, the firstborn, was a farmer, and Abel was a shepherd. The brothers made sacrifices to God, but God accepted the firstlings offered by Abel rather than the first fruits offered by Cain. Cain, full of jealousy, called out Abel into the fields, and slew him. [1]
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.
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]
Eve gives birth to two children: Cain and Abel. When they are older, Cain becomes a farmer and Abel a shepherd. Both make regular ritual sacrifices to God, which Cain's offering is his share of harvest while Abel's offering is a lamb, God then favours the lamb sacrifice made by Abel. Cain, filled with jealousy, murders Abel and runs away.
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The Koren Picture-Bible is a printed part-bible including a series of 36 woodcuts with hand-colouring illustrating the books of Genesis and Revelation. It is the outstanding example of Russian woodcut artistry in the 17th century and of the "Koren-style" woodcut, which is characteristic of the best of the Russian religious and secular popular ...
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