Cain and Abel

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1. The first children of Adam and Eve, born after the Fall of Man. Once, when they were grown men, both Cain and Abel offered sacrifices to God. When Cain saw that Abel's pleased God whereas his did not, Cain murdered his brother out of jealousy. For his crime, Cain was exiled by God to a life of wandering in a distant land.

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God “set a mark upon Cain” to protect him in his wanderings. The “mark of Cain” now refers to an individual's or humankind's sinful nature.

Example Sentences

“You start with Cain and Abel—and you wind up at ‘Succession.’”

From The Wall Street Journal

Instead of a modern reworking of the Cain and Abel story, this revival offers something more subdued — a TV movie pleading for sympathy.

From Los Angeles Times

“Frogs” is sort of bookended by examples of spiritual collapse, with the murder of Cain and Abel at the beginning and the Kristofferson song at the end.

From Los Angeles Times

In this classic adaptation, the director Elia Kazan brings to the screen John Steinbeck’s semi-autobiographical work of fiction, which incorporates the history of his family into a modern-day retelling of the Book of Genesis’s story of Cain and Abel.

From New York Times

After Cain and Abel, was there a first woman?

From Salon