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314 THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.<br />

"estate, envy his brother Abel, and slay him, be-<br />

"cause his offering was accepted [by God]? There-<br />

"fore God drove him far away from His holy<br />

"mountain, and He cursed him', and left him in<br />

"fear and tremblino; to wander about the earth,<br />

"and he was terrified at every sound which he<br />

"heard. And when he had transgressed the com-<br />

"mand of his father in taking his sister to wife,^<br />

"and his sin became great upon his soul, he said,<br />

"'O my sins! God Almighty hath not forgiven<br />

"me, nay. He hath judged me, and hath prepared<br />

"trembling and terror for me before Him, and<br />

"every one who findeth me shall slay me.' And<br />

"God said unto him, 'Should it not be thus.^<br />

"Surely sin shall be imputed unto thee for every<br />

"murder [which shall be committed]'. And after-<br />

"wards a certain man found him and crushed his<br />

"head with a stone, and killed him, and [thus]<br />

"rewarded him^ for his deed. And for the mur-<br />

"derer slaughter is meet, for do not men award<br />

"honour to the honourable man for the sake of<br />

"his honour?<br />

' Read (DClf*<br />

" Cain took a large stone, and smote his brother with<br />

it upon the head, until his brains oozed out^ and he weltered<br />

in his blood before him. When the earth had drunk in Abel's<br />

blood, it trembled, and thrice Cain laid his brother in a<br />

pit which he dug, and thrice the earth threw him up. As<br />

for Cain, when the mourning for his brother was ended, he<br />

took his sister Luluwa and married her, without leave from<br />

his father or mother. Malan, Book of Adam and Eve, p. 100 flf<br />

3 Read ffl

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