Abel

Role: son of Adam and Eve · First appears: Fratricide

Abel was born in Adamah, together with a twin sister destined to be his wife. Adam separated him and Cain into separate abodes and taught them different occupations: Abel kept sheep, while Cain worked the ground. Eve had dreamed that Cain drank Abel’s blood as Abel entreated him not to take all, and Cain desired Abel’s twin sister.

On the fourteenth day of Nisan, Abel offered the best of his flock, while Cain’s offering was rejected. Cain’s hostility toward Abel had more than one cause; one day he slew him, pelting his body with stones until one struck his neck and killed him. Adam buried Abel after seeing a raven bury a dead bird. Later, the angels carried Adam and Abel to Paradise and buried them together.

Relationship record

Life events

• Adam and Abel were buried together.(The Death Of Adam · 📍 Paradise)
  • With: Adam
  • “The angels carried the two bodies to Paradise, Adam's and Abel's—the latter had all this time been lying on a stone on which angels had placed it—and they buried them both on the spot whence God had taken the dust wherewith to make Adam.”
• A girl was born together with each of Adam's sons, destined to be his wife.(Fratricide)
  • With: Abel's twin sister (Section 28) Cain Cain's twin sister (Section 28)
  • “To ensure the propagation of the human race, a girl, destined to be his wife, was born together with each of the sons of Adam.”
• Adam separated his sons, gave each a separate abode, and taught them different occupations.(Fratricide)
  • With: Adam Cain
  • “He separated the two lads, assigning to each an abode of his own, and to each he taught a different occupation.”
• God accepted Abel's offering and rejected Cain's.(Fratricide)
  • With: Cain
  • “They brought their sacrifices on the fourteenth day of Nisan, at the instance of their father, who had spoken thus to his sons: ‘This is the day on which, in times to come, Israel will offer sacrifices. Therefore, do ye, too, bring sacrifices to your Creator on this day, that He may take pleasure in you.’ The place of offering which they chose was the spot whereon the altar of the Temple at Jerusalem stood later. Abel selected the best of his flocks for his sacrifice, but Cain ate his meal first, and after he had satisfied his appetite, he offered unto God what was left over, a few grains of flax seed. As though his offense had not been great enough in offering unto God fruit of the ground which had been cursed by God! What wonder that his sacrifice was not received with favor!”
• Cain slew his brother Abel.(Fratricide)
  • With: Cain
  • “Scarcely did he feel himself free, when he turned against Abel once more, and slew him.”
• Cain killed Abel by pelting him with stones.(The Punishment Of Cain)
  • With: Cain
  • “Cain pelted all parts of his body with stones, until one struck him on the neck and inflicted death.”
• Adam buried Abel after observing a raven bury a dead bird.(The Punishment Of Cain)
  • With: Adam
  • “Adam, following the example of the raven, buried the body of Abel, and the raven was rewarded by God.”
• Cain, Abel, and Seth were born in Adamah.(The Inhabitants Of The Seven Earths · 📍 Adamah)
  • With: Cain Seth
  • “In this Adamah, Cain, Abel, and Seth were born.”
• God sent Cain back to Erez, where its darkness and flames frightened him into repentance.(The Inhabitants Of The Seven Earths · 📍 Erez)
  • With: Cain God
  • “After the murder of Abel, Cain was sent back to the Erez, where he was frightened into repentance by its darkness and by the flames of the ever-turning sword.”

Fratricide

• parent: Adam “He separated the two lads, assigning to each an abode of his own, and to each he taught a different occupation. Cain became a tiller of the ground, and Abel a keeper of sheep.”
• parent: Eve “The slaying of Abel by Cain did not come as a wholly unexpected event to his parents. In a dream Eve had seen the blood of Abel flow into the mouth of Cain, who drank it with avidity, though his brother entreated him not to take all.”
• siblings with Cain “In a dream Eve had seen the blood of Abel flow into the mouth of Cain, who drank it with avidity, though his brother entreated him not to take all.”
• siblings with Abel's twin sister (Section 28) “Abel's twin sister was of exquisite beauty, and Cain desired her.”
• enemies with Cain “His hostility toward Abel had more than one reason.”

The Punishment Of Cain

• siblings with Cain “Where is Abel thy brother?”
• parent: Adam (Adam and Eve are identified as Abel’s mourning parents in the surrounding passage.) “For a long time it lay there exposed, above ground, because Adam and Eve knew not what to do with it. They sat beside it and wept, while the faithful dog of Abel kept guard that birds and beasts did it no harm.”
• parent: Eve (Adam and Eve are identified as Abel’s mourning parents in the surrounding passage.) “For a long time it lay there exposed, above ground, because Adam and Eve knew not what to do with it. They sat beside it and wept, while the faithful dog of Abel kept guard that birds and beasts did it no harm.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Legends of the Jews, Volume I. Made with Rho MD.