Cain’s crops are deemed unsatisfactory by God, while Abel’s sheep are received enthusiastically. Let’s begin with the incident involving the offerings of the ‘fruits’ of the field (i.e., Cain’s crops) and Abel’s sheep. The clue to the deeper meaning of the story of Cain and Abel perhaps rests on two aspects of the narrative: the offering to God which Cain produces, and God is displeased with and the clues provided by the etymologies of the two brothers’ names. ![]() But what does the story mean? It’s often taken to be an injunction against murder, but that doesn’t get us very far, beyond a fairly self-evident moral point. So, these two accounts must belong to different traditions.
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