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- When God shows disappointment in Cain’s sacrifice and pleasure in Abel’s, Cain kills Abel with a stone.
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Cain killed Abel and God cursed Cain, sentencing him to a life of transience. Cain then dwelt in the land of Nod ( נוֹד , 'wandering'), where he built a city and fathered the line of descendants beginning with Enoch .
As per Jewish lore, it’s recounted that Cain, propelled by envy and rage when the Lord preferred Abel’s sacrifice over his, slays his brother Abel using a stone. This gruesome incident is also documented in the Genesis.
Dec 5, 2022 · Rather than repent at God’s rebuke, Cain became angry, and later, in the field, he killed Abel and brought judgment upon himself (Genesis 4:8). The apostle John gives us more insight into Cain’s heart: “Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother.
While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him. Young's Literal Translation. And Cain saith unto Abel his brother, 'Let us go into the field;' and it cometh to pass in their being in the field, that Cain riseth up against Abel his brother, and slayeth him.
- The Background: The Rejected Offering
- The Common Interpretation: Jealousy
- Destined For Evil: Life of Adam and Eve
- Premeditated and Gruesome: Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan
- A Theological Argument Gets Ugly: The Jerusalem Targums
- No Connection to The Offering: Genesis Rabbah
- A Complex Reading of Cain
Immediately after Cain and Abel’s birth announcement,the Torah tells us the two brothers brought offerings to YHWH from their respective areas of specialization: animal husbandry and agriculture: A reader might imagine that Cain should be rewarded since bringing an offering to YHWH is his idea, while Abel just follows suit. Nevertheless, YHWH’s rea...
The earliest and perhaps most natural answer we find in the second centuryB.C.E. book of Jubilees (4:2): At the beginning of the third jubilee, Cain killed Abel because the sacrifice of Abel was accepted, but the offering of Cain was not accepted. The Bible explores the theme of jealousy between brothers in the Joseph story, in which Jacob’s favori...
An extreme example of Cain-as-evil-incarnate appears in the retelling of the story in the Pseudepigraphic work, The Life of Adam and Eve, a Jewish apocalyptic work from the early to mid-first millenniumC.E. We first learn of Cain’s evil disposition upon his birth (21:3a–c): She gave birth to an infant and his color was that of the stars. He fell in...
The Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan, a sixth century Christian work (likely reworking a Jewish original), retells the story of Cain and Abel at great length. In this version, Adam rather than his sons give YHWH the first offering, and Cain does not even participate, whereas Abel encourages them. Abel’s piety brings on Satan’s hatred, who then t...
Rabbinic exegesis also attempts to fill out the story by adding details. One approach, found in all three of the Jerusalem Targums (mid to late 1st millenniumC.E.)presents the fight as a theological argument turned heated: Angered by this response, Cain doubles down and denies God’s involvement in the world entirely, using a phrase (bolded) that ho...
Genesis is silent about what happened in the field, We are never told whether Abel was entirely the victim of an aggressive brother or whether he himself may have done something to provoke the crisis. Moreover, nothing explicit in the Torah connects the killing of Abel with the previous story about sacrifices. Something else may have taken place to...
Cain’s “crime” is so well embedded in our consciousness that it is difficult to read this text with an open mind. What really happens in the field (v. 8)? Almost universally, Cain is maligned for committing first degree murder—but how would he have known what murder is? The text is unclear about what leads Cain to kill his brother. Is he a villain,...
Cain Kills Abel. 4 The man lay with his wife Eve and she was going to have a child and she gave birth to Cain. She said, “I have given birth to a man with the help of the Lord.” 2 Next she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was one who worked the ground.
Cain murders his brother, Abel, out of jealousy, found in Genesis 4. The two were sons of Adam and Eve, with two different responsibilities (each cornerstones of the neolythic economy, based in...
