And Adam lay with Heva is wife, which conceived and bare Cain, and
said: I have gotten a man of the LORD. And she proceeded forth and bare
his brother Abel: And Abel became a shepherd, and Cain became a
plowman. And it fortuned in process of time, that Cain brought of the
fruit of the earth: an offering unto the LORD. And Abel, he brought
also of the firstlings of his sheep and of the fat of them. And the
LORD looked unto Abel and to his offering: but unto Cain and unto his
offering, looked he not. And Cain was wroth exceedingly, and lowered.
And the LORD said unto Cain: why art thou angry, and why lowerest thou?
Wotest thou not if thou dost well thou shalt receive it? But and if
thou dost evil, by and by thy sin lieth open in the door.
Notwithstanding let it be subdued unto thee, and see thou rule it. And
Cain talked with Abel his brother. And as soon as they were in the
fields, Cain fell upon Abel his brother and slew him. And the LORD said
unto Cain: where is Abel thy brother? And he said: I can not tell, am I
my brother's keeper? And he said: What hast thou done? The voice of thy
brother's blood cryeth unto me out of the earth. And now cursed be thou
as pertaining to the earth, which opened her mouth to receive thy
brother's blood of thine hand. For when thou tillest the ground she
shall henceforth not give her power unto thee. A vagabond and a
renegade shalt thou be upon the earth. And Cain said unto the LORD: my
sin is greater, than that it may be forgiven. Behold thou castest me
out this day from off the face of the earth, and from thy sight must I
hide myself, and I must be wandering and a vagabond upon the earth:
Moreover whosoever findeth me, will kill me. And the LORD said unto
him: Not so, but whosoever slayeth Cain shall be punished sevenfold.
And the LORD put a mark upon Cain that no man that found him should
kill him. And Cain went out from the face of the LORD, and dwelt in the
land Nod, on the east side of Eden. And Cain lay with his wife, which
conceived and bare Henoch. And he was building a city and called the
name of it after the name of his son, Henoch. And Henoch begat Irad.
And Irad begat Mahuiael. And Mahuiael begat Mathusael. And Mathusael
begat Lamech. And Lamech took him two wives: the one was called Ada,
and the other Zilla: And Ada bare Iabal, of whom came they that dwell
in tents and possess cattle. And his brother's name was Iubal: of him
came all that exercise them selves on the harp and on the organs. And
Zilla she also bare Tubalcain a worker in metal and a father of all
that grave in brass and iron. And Tubalcain's sister was called Naema.
Then said Lamech unto his wives Ada and Zilla: hear my voice ye wives
of Lamech and hearken unto my words, for I have slain a man and wounded
myself, and have slain a young man, and got myself stripes: For Cain
shall be avenged sevenfold: but Lamech seventy times sevenfold. Adam
also lay with his wife yet again, and she bare a son and called his
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