"Who will carry the report to my lord Adam?" she asked herself. But He hearkened not unto her supplications. When the days of Eve to be delivered were fulfilled, and she began to feel the pangs of travailing, she prayed to God for help. After she had succumbed a second time to the temptations of Satan, and permitted herself to be interrupted in her penance, she left her husband and journeyed westward, because she feared her presence might continue to bring him misery. Cain's descent from Satan, who is the angel Samael, was revealed in his seraphic appearance.Īt his birth, the exclamation was wrung from Eve, "I have gotten a man through an angel of the Lord."Īdam was not in the company of Eve during the time of her pregnancy with Cain. But after the fall of Eve, Satan, in the guise of the serpent, approached her, and the fruit of their union was Cain, the ancestor of all the impious generations that were rebellious toward God, and rose up against Him. When God bestowed Paradise upon the first pair of mankind, He warned them particularly against carnal intercourse with each other. Wickedness came into the world with the first being born of woman, Cain, the oldest son of Adam. By reason of their impiousness God changed His plan of calling one thousand generations into being between the creation of the world and the revelation of the law at Mount Sinai nine hundred and seventy-four He suppressed before the flood. There were ten generations from Adam to Noah, to show how long-suffering is the Lord, for all the generations provoked Him unto wrath, until He brought the deluge upon them. The title of the sacred book of Islam is variously Romanised as Koran, Quran, Qur'an, or Qur'ān.Ĭain and Abel Jewish Legend The Birth of Cain.
In more recent translations of The Quran the division into verses of this passage is given as 5:27-31.Palmer (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1880), p. Source: The Qur'ān, 5:30-34, translated by E.And God sent a crow to scratch in theĮarth and show him how he might hide his brother's shame, he said, "Alas, for me! Am I too helpless to become like this crow and hide my brother's shame?" and in the morning he was of those who did repent. Mayest draw upon thee my sin and thy sin, and be of the fellows of theįire, for that is the reward of the unjust."īut his soul allowed him to slay his brother, and he slew him, and in the Thee verily, I fear God, the Lord of the worlds verily, I wish that thou To me thine hand to kill me, I will not stretch forth mine hand to kill Thee " he said, "God only accepts from those who fear. Truly when they offered an offering, and it was accepted from one of them,Īnd was not accepted from the other, that one said, "I will surely kill Recite to them the story of the two sons of Adam The Story of the Two Sons of Adam The Quran Source: Genesis 4:1-17, King James version.And Cain knew his wife and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and heīuilded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his.And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land.And the LORD set a mark uponĬain, lest any finding him should kill him. Vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain,.In the earth and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth Īnd from thy face shall I be hid and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond.And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.Her strength a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee.Receive thy brother's blood from thy hand And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to.And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood.And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I.Were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they.And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not.And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy.But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of theįat thereof.And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit.And Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived, and bare Cain, and.Ashliman's folktexts, a library of folktales, folklore,Ĭain and Abel The First Book of Moses, called Genesis Cain and Abel (Turkey, History of the Forty Vezirs).The Story of the Two Sons of Adam ( The Quran).