Cain and Abel, First Two Sons of Adam Eve, Book of Genesis I Animated Childrens Bible Stories
Watch other amazing Bible Stories like For Adam and Eve, Noahs Ark, Joseph, Moses and many more Cain and Abel (, keɪn, ˈeɪbəl, ; Hebrew: הבל, קין Qayin, Heḇel; Arabic: قابيل هابيل Qābīl, Hābīl) were sons of Adam and Eve in the biblical Book of Genesis. Cain, the firstborn, tilled the soil, and his brother Abel was a shepherd. The brothers made sacrifices to God, each of his own produce, but God favored Abel s sacrifice instead of Cain s. Cain murdered Abel. God punished Cain to a life of wandering, but set a mark on him so that no man would kill him. Cain then dwelt in the land of Nod (נוד, wandering ), where he built a city and fathered the line of descendants beginning with Enoch. The narrative never explicitly states Cain s motive (though it does describe him as being wrathful, and his motive is traditionally assumed to be envy), 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
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