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Abel: breath.
Second son of Adam and Eve and the brother of Cain, who, according to Genesis 4:1-16, killed him from envy.
- New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
- New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
