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3 results for "cain"

1. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 4.17, 5.4 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •cain, wife of Found in books: Niehoff (2011) 148

4.17. "וַיֵּדַע קַיִן אֶת־אִשְׁתּוֹ וַתַּהַר וַתֵּלֶד אֶת־חֲנוֹךְ וַיְהִי בֹּנֶה עִיר וַיִּקְרָא שֵׁם הָעִיר כְּשֵׁם בְּנוֹ חֲנוֹךְ׃", 5.4. "וַיִּהְיוּ יְמֵי־אָדָם אַחֲרֵי הוֹלִידוֹ אֶת־שֵׁת שְׁמֹנֶה מֵאֹת שָׁנָה וַיּוֹלֶד בָּנִים וּבָנוֹת׃",

4.17. "And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bore Enoch; and he builded a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son Enoch.", 5.4. "And the days of Adam after he begot Seth were eight hundred years; and he begot sons and daughters.",

2. Philo of Alexandria, Allegorical Interpretation, 34, 33 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Niehoff (2011) 148

3. Strabo, Geography, 1.3.3 Tagged with subjects: •cain, wife of Found in books: Niehoff (2011) 148

1.3.3. Again, having discoursed on the advance of knowledge respecting the Geography of the inhabited earth, between the time of Alexander and the period when he was writing, Eratosthenes goes into a description of the figure of the earth; not merely of the habitable earth, an account of which would have been very suitable, but of the whole earth, which should certainly have been given too, but not in this disorderly manner. He proceeds to tell us that the earth is spheroidal, not however perfectly so, inasmuch as it has certain irregularities, he then enlarges on the successive changes of its form, occasioned by water, fire, earthquakes, eruptions, and the like; all of which is entirely out of place, for the spheroidal form of the whole earth is the result of the system of the universe, and the phenomena which he mentions do not in the least change its general form; such little matters being entirely lost in the great mass of the earth. Still they cause various peculiarities in different parts of our globe, and result from a variety of causes.

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