The seven generations of Cain, as the brood of Satan, are accordingly represented as types of rebels(Gen. He is the first of those who have no share in the world to come (Ab. For him and his race shall ever be "the desire of the spirit of sin" (Gen. xxii.), and whose punishment was of an extraordinary character: for every hundred years of the seven hundred years he was to live was to inflict another punishment upon him and all his generations must be exterminated (Test. 101b Tan.), whose fleeing from God was a denial of His omnipresence (Gen. 8), whose words of repentance were insincere (Sanh. Mosis, 3), a lawless rebel who said, "There is neither a divine judgment nor a judge" (Midr. 38).Ĭain was also viewed as a type of utter perverseness, an offspring of Satan (Pirḳe R. 31), or at the hands of his great-grandson Lamech, who took him for a wild beast in the distance and shot him (Tan., Bereshit, ed. 37b) and his crime was finally atoned for when he met death through the falling upon him of his house (Book of Jubilees, iv. Like a man who had slain another without premeditation, he was sent into exile to atone for his sin (Sanh.
and so the mark the Lord set upon him was a token of forgiveness. He was nevertheless sincere in his repentance when he said, "Too great is my sin to bear" (Gen. One was that of a sinner who yielded to his passions who was greedy, "offering to God only worthless portions the remnants of his meal or flaxseed" whom either God's favorable acceptance of Abel's sacrifice or Abel's handsomer wife and twin sister filled with jealousy who, because he claimed the pasture-land or the wife of Abel as his birthright, quarreled with his brother. In Rabbinical Literature:Ĭain, the murderer of his brother Abel, presented to the views of the Rabbis two different types. From him were descended Lamech, who is recorded as having married two wives Jabal, who instituted nomad life Jubal, who invented music and Tubal-Cain, the inventor of metal weapons- i.e., the authors of material and social progress. At Cain's appeal Yhwh "made to him a sign, lest any one finding him should smite him." Cain went forth to the land of Nod Wandering), east of Eden his wife bore him a son Enoch, after whom he named a city which he had built. Cain slew Abel, and was cursed by Yhwh so that the soil should yield no return to his labor, and he should be driven out to wander over the earth. Cain was angered, whereupon Yhwh assured him that divine acceptance depended upon conduct. First-born of Adam and Eve, named "Cain" ("Ḳayin") because "gotten" (root, "ḳanah") "with the help of Yhwh." He became a tiller of the ground, and made an offering of its fruits which Yhwh did not accept, though He had accepted that of Abel.
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