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Adam and Eve’s family: Cain, Abel and Seth
Meet Adam and Eve and the three sons named in these passages from Genesis.
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These connections follow Cain, Abel and Seth. Genesis also mentions other sons and daughters without naming them here; this chart is not a complete list of Adam and Eve’s children.
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Adam Adam is the father of Abel.
Source: Genesis 4:1; Genesis 4:2
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
Read Genesis 4:1And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
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Eve Eve is the mother of Abel.
Source: Genesis 4:1; Genesis 4:2
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
Read Genesis 4:1And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
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Cain Cain is the brother of Abel.
Source: Genesis 4:1; Genesis 4:2
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
Read Genesis 4:1And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Read Genesis 4:2
Bible edition: King James Version
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Adam is the husband of Eve.
Source: Genesis 4:1
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
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Adam is the father of Cain.
Source: Genesis 4:1
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
Read Genesis 4:1 -
Eve is the mother of Cain.
Source: Genesis 4:1
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
Read Genesis 4:1 -
Adam is the father of Abel.
Source: Genesis 4:1; Genesis 4:2
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
Read Genesis 4:1And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Read Genesis 4:2 -
Eve is the mother of Abel.
Source: Genesis 4:1; Genesis 4:2
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
Read Genesis 4:1And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Read Genesis 4:2 -
Adam is the father of Seth.
Source: Genesis 5:3
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
Read Genesis 5:3 -
Eve is the mother of Seth.
Source: Genesis 4:1; Genesis 4:25
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
Read Genesis 4:1And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
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Cain is the brother of Abel.
Source: Genesis 4:1; Genesis 4:2
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
Read Genesis 4:1And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Read Genesis 4:2
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