The Children of Adam and Eve

Cain was a crop farmer and his younger brother Abel was a shepherd. Cain is portrayed as sinful, committing the first murder by killing his Brother after God had rejected his offerings of produce but accepted the animal sacrifices Brought byAbel.

The oldest known copy of the Biblical narration is from the first century Dead Sea Scrolls. 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, issometimes seen as the first martyr; while Cain, the first murderer, is sometimes seen as an ancestor of evil.

As Abel's murderer, Cain was commanded to wander the earth in punishment, a tradition arose that this punishment was to be forever. However, according to the earlier Book of Jubilees (chapter 4) Cain settled down, marrying his sister Awan andresulting in his first son, Enoch (considered to be different from the more famous Enoch), approximately 196 years after the creation of Adam. Cain then established the first city, naming it after his son, built a house, and lived there until itcollapsed on him, killing him in the same year that Adam died.