Life of Adam and Eve 22

Related ancient text — scholarly reference

Extra-canonical text — not LDS scripture and not in the KJV Apocrypha. Provided as scholarly reference for parallel literature of the Second Temple period and the early Christian era. Read with discernment; the Apostle Jude quotes 1 Enoch and Paul knew this material, but inclusion here is for study, not doctrine.

1(22.1) Adam took Eve and the boy and led them to the east.

2(22.2) The Lord God sent various seeds by Michael the angel, who gave them to Adam and showed them how to work and tend the ground, in order to have fruit, from which they and all their generations might live.

3(22.3) Afterwards, Eve conceived and bore a son, whose name was Abel, and Cain and Abel remained together as one.

4(22.4a) Eve said to Adam:

5(22.4b) "My lord, while asleep I saw a vision like the blood of our son Abel on the hand of Cain who tasted it with his mouth. On account of this I am pained."

6(22.5) Adam said: "Woe, let not Cain kill Abel, but let us separate them from each other and make separate houses for them."

Public-domain text (R.H. Charles 1913 and equivalents). These works are not canonical, but several were widely read in antiquity and one (1 Enoch) is quoted by name in Jude 1:14–15. Useful for understanding the doctrinal landscape from which the apostles and earliest saints taught.