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Modern scholarship tends to view the Cain and Abel narrative as a symbolic, etiological tale to explain how agriculture replaced foraging using name puns.

In Islam, the story of Cain and Abel serves as an admonition against murder promoting sanctity of human life.

The events of the story in the Qur'an are virtually the same as the Hebrew Bible narrative: Both the brothers were asked to offer up individual sacrifices to God God accepted Abel's sacrifice and rejected Cain's out of jealousy, Cain slew Abel – the first ever case of murder committed upon the Earth. In the Qur'an, Abel and Cain are known as Hābīl ( Arabic: هابيل) and Qābīl ( قابيل) respectively. Cain then dwelt in the land of Nod ( נוֹד, 'wandering'), where he built a city and fathered the line of descendants beginning with Enoch. Cain then murdered Abel, whereupon God punished Cain by condemning him to a life of wandering. The brothers made sacrifices to God, but God favored Abel's sacrifice instead of Cain's. Cain, the firstborn, was a farmer, and his brother Abel was a shepherd. In the biblical Book of Genesis, Cain and Abel are the first two sons of Adam and Eve. For other uses, see Cain and Abel (disambiguation).Ĭain slaying Abel, by Peter Paul Rubens, c. This article is about the first and second sons of Adam and Eve.

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