--- title: Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel», a lesson of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: In Genesis 2 and 3 God places Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, in the Garden of Eden and lets them eat from every tree except on --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel # Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel Lesson 2 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school: 18 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel/0/) — In Genesis 2 and 3 God places Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, in the Garden of Eden and lets them eat from every tree except one: the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel/1/) — A clever serpent persuades Eve that God is keeping something good from her; she eats the fruit and gives some to Adam, and then they hide from God, Adam blames Eve and Eve blames the serpent. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel/2/) — Christians call this first disobedience the Fall, the moment sin and trouble came into the world, yet God still makes clothes for Adam and Eve before sending them out of the garden. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel/3/) — Their son Cain grows jealous of his brother Abel and kills him; when God asks where Abel is, Cain answers "Am I my brother's keeper?", and the Bible's answer is yes. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel/4/) — Even so, God puts a mark on Cain so no one kills him in revenge, because justice is not the same as revenge. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel/5/) — For a child today: temptation often starts with doubting that a rule is for our good, owning up is braver than hiding and blaming, and jealousy must be stopped early before it grows. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel/6/) — Adam and Eve are the first man and woman in the Bible, made by God and placed in the Garden of Eden. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel/7/) — Christians believe people were made to be friends with God and with each other. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel/8/) — God told Adam and Eve they could eat from every tree except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel/9/) — The Bible does not say the fruit was an apple; that idea came much later from paintings and stories. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel/10/) — The serpent persuaded Eve that God was keeping something good from her; she ate the fruit and gave some to Adam. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel/11/) — After eating, Adam and Eve hid from God; Adam blamed Eve, and Eve blamed the serpent. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel/12/) — Christians call the first disobedience the Fall: the moment when sin and trouble entered the world. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel/13/) — Christians believe everyone does wrong sometimes and needs God's help to put things right. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel/14/) — Even after sending Adam and Eve out of the garden, God made clothes for them. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel/15/) — Christians differ on whether Adam and Eve were two real people or a story about all humanity (disputed). - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel/16/) — Cain and Abel were Adam and Eve's sons; Cain grew jealous of Abel and killed him. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel/18/) — God put a mark on Cain so that no one would kill him in revenge. - ← previous: [Creation: God the maker](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/1-creation-god-the-maker/) - next →: [Noah and the Tower of Babel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/) - ↑ back to [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/)