And Adam lay wyth Heua ys wyfe / which conceaved and bare Cain / and sayd: I haue goten a m&abar; of the LORde. And she proceded forth and bare hys brother Abell: And Abell became a sheperde / And Cain became a ploweman.

And it fortuned in processe of tyme / that Cain brought of the frute of the erth: an offerynge vnto the LORde. And Abell / he brought also of the fyrstlynges of hys shepe and of the fatt of them. And the LORde loked vnto Abell and to his offeynge: but vnto Cain and vnto his offrynge / looked he not. And Cain was wroth exceadingly / and loured. And the LORde sayd vnto Cain: why art thou angry / and why loureste thou? Wotest thou not yf thou dost well thou shalt receave it? But ∧ yf thou dost evell / by ∧ by thy synne lyeth open in the dore. Not withstondyng

let it be subdued vnto the / &abar;d see thou rule it. And Cain talked wyth Abell his brother.

And as soone as they were in the feldes / Cain fell vppon Abell his brother and slewe hym And þe; LORde sayd vnto Cain: where is Abell thy brother? And he sayd: I can not tell / am I my brothers keper? And he sayd: What hast thou done? the voyce of thy brothers bloud cryeth vnto me out of the erth. And now cursed be thou as pertaynyng to the erth / which opened hyr mouth to receaue thy brothers bloud of thyne hande. For when thou tyllest the grounde she shall h&ebar;ceforth not geve hyr power vnto the. A vagabunde and a rennagate shalt thou be vpon the erth.

And Cain sayd vnto the LORde: my synne is greater / then that it may be forgeven. Beholde thou castest me out thys day from of the face of the erth / and fr&obar; thy syghte must I hyde my selfe &abar;d I must be wandrynge and a vagabunde vpon the erth: Morover whosoever fyndeth me / wyll kyll me, And the LORde sayd vnto h&ibar; Not so / but whosoever sleyth Cain shalbe punyshed .vij. folde. And þe; LORde put ^note a marke vp&obar; Cain that no m&abar; þt; founde hym shulde kyll hym.

And Cain went out fr&obar; the face of the LORde and dwelt in the lande Nod / on the east syde of Eden.

And Cain laye wyth hys wyfe / which conceaved and bare Henoch. And he was buyldinge a cyte and called the name of it after the name of hys sonne / Henoch. And Henoch begat Irad. And Irad begat Mahuiael. And Mahuiael begat Mathusael. And Mathusael begat Lamech.

And Lamech toke hym two wyves: the one was called Ada / and the other Zilla. And Ada bare Iabal / of whome came they that dwell in tentes &abar;d possesse catell. And hys brothers name was Iubal: of hym came all that excercyse them selves on the harpe and on the organs And Zilla she also bare Tubalcain a worker in metall and a father of all that grave in brasse and yeron. And Tubalcains syster was called Naema.

Then sayd Lamech vnto hys wyves Ada &abar;d Zilla: heare my voyce ye wyves of Lamech and herken vnto my wordes / for I haue slayne a man and wounded my selfe / and haue slayn a yongman / and gotte my selfe strypes:

For Cain shall be avenged sevenfolde: but Lamech seventie tymes sevenfolde.

¶ Adam also laye with hys wyfe yet agayne / and she bare a sonne &abar;d called hys name Seth For god (sayd she) hath geven me a nother sonne For Abell whom Cain slewe. And Seth begat a sonne and called hys name Enos. And in that tyme began men to call on the name of the LORde.

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