However, the Bible mentions only three: Cain, Abel, and Seth. Cain was their first child, born after they were expelled from the Garden of Eve. He was a farmer, tilling and growing crops.

One of the most perplexing (and disturbing) of all the stories in the Old Testament is that of Cain and Abel. Now, evidence from an archeological dig in Iraq exposes a dark secret about our ...

Next she bore his brother Abel. Abel became a keeper of flocks, and Cain a tiller of the soil.” (Genesis 4:1-2) Today we have an account of the first family. And boy, what a family it was.

Scarcely do we marvel over the poetic creation story when the writer of Genesis plunges us into family drama ... God’s rejection of Cain’s offering plants the seed of resentment in Cain ...

Later, when Eve speaks of the birth of Seth, her stress changes: “God has granted me another offspring in place of Abel because Cain killed him” (v. 25). She finally realizes that children are ...

Previously, she founded The Mary Sue. Not right. The primary reference for The Sandman’s Cain and Abel isn’t biblical at all, but something much, much trashier. Something that makes the weird ...

This is Italian artist Pier Francesco Mola’s depiction of Cain’s murder of his brother Abel. Mola lived from ... justice by being set apart from his family. “First John 3:12 says, “Do ...