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Adam and Cain
How Adam and Cain are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Adam was a parent of Cain.
Genesis names Cain as the first son of Adam and Eve. Adam was sent out of Eden to till the ground, and Cain became a tiller of the ground.
Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain
Genesis 4:1, King James Version
to till the ground from whence he was taken
Genesis 3:23, King James Version
Cain was a tiller of the ground
Genesis 4:2, King James Version
Where they cross: Genesis 4:1-2
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
Genesis 3:23
23Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Genesis 4:1-2
1And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.
2And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
King James Version