Murder in the Garden of God

The brothers made sacrifices to God , each of his own produce, but God favored Abel's sacrifice instead of Cain's. Cain then murdered Abel, whereupon God punished Cain to a life of wandering.

Cain and Abel

The narrative never explicitly states Cain's motive for murdering his brother , nor God's reason for rejecting Cain's sacrifice, nor details on the identity of Cain's wife. Some traditional interpretations consider Cain to be the originator of evil, violence, or greed. According to Genesis, Cain was the first human born and Abel was the first to die. The story of Cain's murder of Abel and its consequences is told in Genesis 4: And Cain was very incensed, and his face fell. And he said, "I do not know: A restless wanderer shall you be on the earth.

Then he became the builder of a city and he called the name of the city like his son's name, Enoch. The original text did not have vowels. It has been proposed that the etymology of their names may be a direct pun on the roles they take in the Genesis narrative. Abel is thought to derive from a reconstructed word meaning "herdsman", with the modern Arabic cognate ibil now specifically referring only to "camels". Cain is thought to be cognate to the mid-1st millennium BC South Arabian word qyn , meaning " metalsmith ".

The oldest known copy of the biblical narrative is from the Dead Sea Scrolls , and dates to the first century BC. Cain and Abel also appear in a number of other texts, and the story is the subject of various interpretations. Abel, the first murder victim, is sometimes seen as the first martyr ; while Cain, the first murderer, is sometimes seen as an ancestor of evil. Some scholars suggest the pericope may have been based on a Sumerian story representing the conflict between nomadic shepherds and settled farmers. Modern scholars typically view the stories of Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel to be about the development of civilization during the age of agriculture; not the beginnings of man, but when people first learned agriculture , replacing the ways of the hunter-gatherer.

Cain and Abel are likely symbolic rather than real. One question arising early in the story is why God rejects Cain's sacrifice, since Cain never received instructions about how to sacrifice correctly, nor had he done anything wrong, and why God then admonishes Cain with a warning about sin. The Midrash suggest that although Abel brought the best meat from his flock, Cain did not set aside for God the best of his harvest. According to the Book of Genesis , Cain Hebrew: According to Genesis 4: With the earth left cursed to drink Abel's blood, Cain was no longer able to farm the land.

Cain is punished as a "fugitive and wanderer". He receives a mark from God, commonly referred to as the mark of Cain , representing God's promise to protect Cain from being murdered. Exegesis of the Septuagint 's narrative, "groaning and shaking upon the earth" has Cain suffering from body tremors. According to the Life of Adam and Eve , Cain fetched his mother a reed qaneh which is how he received his name Qayin Cain. The symbolism of him fetching a reed may be a nod to his occupation as a farmer, as well as a commentary to his destructive nature.

He is also described as "lustrous", which may reflect the Gnostic association of Cain with the sun. Cain is described as a city-builder, [26] and the forefather of tent-dwelling pastoralists, all lyre and pipe players, and bronze and iron smiths. In an alternate translation of Genesis 4: Such a city could correspond with Eridu , one of the most ancient cities known. Instead, he argues, the city symbolizes an unrighteous philosophy.

In the New Testament , Cain is cited as an example of unrighteousness in 1 John 3: The Targumim , rabbinic sources, and later speculations supplemented background details for the daughters of Adam and Eve. Cain then establishes the first city, naming it after his son, builds a house, and lives there until it collapses on him, killing him. Although it is not commonly mentioned, the ground is something that many believe plays a pivotal role in relation to early stories of Genesis , like Adam , Noah , and Cain.

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More than this, the ground is considered to be more than just a setting, but instead a character. It is believed that because the ground is given human qualities, like a mouth, in the scripture, there is evidence to support the idea. Because of this reaction from the ground, many questions have been raised, but the most important question raised according to the researchers was: Rather, Eve was subject to adultery having been seduced by either Sammael , [34] [35] the serpent [36] nahash , Hebrew: Thus, according to some interpreters, Cain was half-human and half-angelic, one of the Nephilim.

Gnostic exegesis in the Apocryphon of John has Eve seduced by Yaldaboth. However, in the Hypostasis of the Archons , Eve is raped by a pair of Archons. Pseudo-Philo , a Jewish work of the first century CE, narrates that Cain murdered his brother at the age of After escaping to the Land of Nod , Cain fathered four sons: Enoch, Olad, Lizpha and Fosal; and two daughters: Cain died at the age of , leaving his corrupt descendants spreading evil on earth. Afterwards, Cain was killed by the same instrument he used against his brother; his house fell on him and he was killed by its stones.

A Talmudic tradition says that after Cain had murdered his brother, God made a horn grow on his head see the mark of Cain. Later, Cain was killed at the hands of his great grandson Lamech, who mistook him for a wild beast. According to the narrative in Genesis , Abel Hebrew: His name in Hebrew is composed of the same three consonants as a root meaning "breath".

Julius Wellhausen , and many scholars following him, have proposed that the name is independent of the root. In Christianity , comparisons are sometimes made between the death of Abel and that of Jesus , the former thus seen as being the first martyr. The blood of Jesus is interpreted as bringing mercy; but that of Abel as demanding vengeance hence the curse and mark.

Abel is invoked in the litany for the dying in the Roman Catholic Church , and his sacrifice is mentioned in the Canon of the Mass along with those of Abraham and Melchizedek. The Alexandrian Rite commemorates him with a feast day on December According to the Coptic Book of Adam and Eve at 2: In addition, the Sethite line of the Generations of Adam swear by Abel's blood to segregate themselves from the unrighteous.

In the Book of Enoch This view is later repeated in the Testament of Abraham A: The following family tree of the line of Cain is compiled from a variety of biblical and extra-biblical texts.

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