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Pseudepigrapha — not canonical
Anderson critical edition of the Latin Vita Adae et Evae (Lechner-Schmidt text, Custis/Anderson/Layton translation, U. Virginia IATH); includes medieval Latin appendices 52–57. These texts are not endorsed in any LDS canon — see framing.
1(23.1) They made Cain to be a farmer, and Abel to be a shepherd that they might thus be separated from each other.
2(23.2) But even after this, Cain killed Abel. Adam was then 130 years old. Abel was killed when he was 122 years old.
3(23.3) After this Adam knew his wife and begot a son and called his name Seth.
Public-domain text. Pseudepigrapha are extra-canonical witnesses to the Second Temple and early Christian worlds; read with discernment. The Apocrypha endorsement in D&C 91 does not extend to these texts.
