Adam
- Wife
- Eve
- Children
- Cain
- Abel
- Seth
Citations
- And the first man of all men have I called Adam, which is many.
- God creates Adam, and then Eve.
- Adam eats of the forbidden fruit.
- Adam sacrifices as he was commanded. He is taught about repentance and receives the Holy Ghost. He has children with Eve.
- Adam has Seth born to him. He dies. Enoch, a descendant of Seth, shares details of Adam's life and the gospel.
- 1) And it came to pass that Enoch continued his speech, saying: Behold, our father Adam taught these things, and many have believed and become the sons of God, and many have believed not, and have perished in their sins, and are looking forth with fear, in torment, for the fiery indignation of the wrath of God to be poured out upon them.
- 22) And Enoch also beheld the residue of the people which were the sons of Adam; and they were a mixture of all the seed of Adam save it was the seed of Cain, for the seed of Cain were black, and had not place among them.
- "We believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam's transgressions."
- "And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord."
- 1) This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
- 2) Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
- 3) And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
- 4) And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
- 5) And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
- 37:1) The second vision which he saw, the vision of wisdom -which Enoch the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel,
- 37:2) the son of Cainan, the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, saw.
- Adam seen symbolically in a dream of Enoch's.
- The Book of Jasher, Ch. 1, J.H. Parry & Company, 1887
- vv. 1-7) Adam and Eve are created and placed in the Garden of Eden.
- vv. 8-12) The fall of Adam and Eve.
- vv. 13-14) The birth and raising of Cain and Abel.
- The Book of Jasher, Ch. 2, J.H. Parry & Company, 1887
- 1) And it was in the hundred and thirtieth year of the life of Adam upon the earth, the he again knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bare a son in his likeness and in his image, and she called his name Seth, saying, Because God has appointed me another seed in the place of Abel, for Cain has slain him.
- 36) And the wives of Lamech listened to him in this matter, and they returned to him with the advice of their father Adam, but they bore no children to him from that time, knowing that God's anger was increasing in those days against the sons of men, to destroy them with the waters of the flood for their evil doings.
- The Book of Jasher, Ch. 3, J.H. Parry & Company, 1887
- 14) And it was in the fifty-sixth year of the life of Lamech when Adam died; nine hundred and thirty years old was he at his death, and his two sons, with Enoch and Methuselah his son, buried him with great pomp, as at the burial of kings, in the cave which God had told him.
- 15) And in that place all the sons of men made a great mourning and weeping on account of Adam; it has therefore been a custom among the sons of men to this day.
- 16) And Adam died because he ate of the tree of knowledge; he and his children after him, as the Lord God had spoken.
- 17) And it was in the year of Adam's death which was the two hundred and forty-third year of the reign of Enoch, in that time Enoch resolved to separate himself from the sons of men and to secrete himself as at first in order to serve the Lord.
- Grimm's Fairy Tales, "The Pink"
- The young boy in this story, who has the power of wishing, is told "it is not good for you to be so much alone" and is told to wish for a young maiden to be his companion. (Though, this instruction is given by the antagonist.) The boy changes the antagonist's form (into a black dog's) and leaves to go find his father.
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