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The First Children: Cain and Abel

The man was intimate with Eve, his wife. She conceived and gave birth to Cain. She said, “I have gotten a man with the Lord.”[a] She also gave birth to Cain’s brother Abel.

Abel tended sheep, but Cain worked the ground.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 4:1 Or, following Luther’s translation, I have gotten a man, the Lord. The Jerusalem Targum reads I have acquired a man, the Angel of the Lord. Cain means get or acquire.