Genealogies of Cain and Seth
Three of Adam and Eve's children are named. The main genealogy is via Seth, who was born after Cain, the firstborn son, slew his brother Abel. A genealogy for Cain is also given (in genesis 4˄), with some names similar to those for Seth's descendants. No years are provided, so the following table simply lines the descendants up by generation.
| Adam | Eve | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cain | Abel | Seth | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Enoch | Enos (Enosh) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Irad | Cainan (Kenan) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mehujael | Mahalaleel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Methushael | Jared | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Adah | Lamech | Zillah | Enoch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jabal | Jubal | Tubal-Cain | Naamah | Methuselah | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lamech | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Noah | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shem | Ham | Japheth | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(for a continuation of this family tree through the line of Shem, see Abraham's Family Tree)
Read more about this topic: Genealogies Of Genesis
Famous quotes containing the words cain and/or seth:
“I’ll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!”
—Abraham Polonsky (b. 1910)
“We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilisation.”
—Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)