Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller - a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land (1885) (14773111315)

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Title: Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller : a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905
Subjects: Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : Estes and Lauriant
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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Cain was a tiller of the ground, and hisbrother Abel was a pastor of sheep. The life of Abel was simple andpure, and was passed in the land ofAdamah, where flowers from theseeds of Eden still bloomed. He was attended in hispastoral duties by a shep-herd dog, to whom he wasalways kind, and whobecame very muchattached to hismaster. — -«^ .0 - ( THE DOG WATCHING ABELS BODY. One day, Adam said to Cain and Abel: My sons, ascend the mountain, andoffer up sacrifices to the Ruler of the Earth and Heavens.
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EhPSU WQ WXH W u SOME CURIOUS STORIES. 39 Abel took from his flock his best sheep, and ascended to the mountain altar.Cain took a sheaf of corn, and one that was imperfect and useless. The heavenly fire fell upon the offering of Abel, and the smoke mingledwith the sky, but the sheaf of Cain remained untouched. Jealousy, like an evil spirit, entered into the heart of Cain. One day, Cain found Abel asleep on the mountain, with his dog by his side.Cain took a stone and dashed it against his head. He saw that he had killedhis brother, and hurried away.



Cain and Abel - the first two sons of Adam and Eve. According to the book of Genesis, Cain, a farmer, became jealous of Abel, a shepherd, when God accepted Abel's offering of animal sacrifice but rejected Cain's offering of crops. In a fit of anger, Cain killed Abel, making him the first murderer in human history. God punished Cain by marking him and banishing him from the land.