Fran Snyder here suggests that the story is not about Cain and Abel, but the voice of Eve's grief.
She makes something of the inclusio so I have shown the relevant recurring words below. (There's a bug in my table refusing columns to some rows! but the result is clear anyway.)
Word / Gloss | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 1 | Vs | Stem | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
והאדם and the one from the humus | ░ | 1 | אדם | |||||||||||
ידע knew | ░ | 1 | ידע | |||||||||||
את -- | 1 | את | ||||||||||||
אשתו his wife | ░ | 1 | אשה | |||||||||||
ותלד and she gave birth to | ░ | 1 | ילד | |||||||||||
את -- | 1 | את | ||||||||||||
קין Cain | ░ | 1 | קין | |||||||||||
את with | 1 | את | ||||||||||||
יהוה Yahweh | 1 | יהוה | ||||||||||||
ללדת gave birth to | ░ | 2 | ילד | |||||||||||
את -- | 2 | את | ||||||||||||
את to | 2 | את | ||||||||||||
הבל Abel | ░ | 2 | הבל | |||||||||||
ויהי and was | ░ | 2 | היה | |||||||||||
הבל Abel | ░ | 2 | הבל | |||||||||||
וקין but Cain | ░ | 2 | קין | |||||||||||
היה was | ░ | 2 | היה | |||||||||||
אדמה the ground | ░ | 2 | אדם | |||||||||||
וידע and knew | ░ | 25 | ידע | |||||||||||
אדם Adam | ░ | 25 | אדם | |||||||||||
את -- | 25 | את | ||||||||||||
אשתו his wife | ░ | 25 | אשה | |||||||||||
ותלד and she gave birth to | ░ | 25 | ילד | |||||||||||
בן a son | ░ | 25 | בן | |||||||||||
ותקרא and she called | ░ | 25 | קרא | |||||||||||
את -- | 25 | את | ||||||||||||
שמו his name | ░ | 25 | שם | |||||||||||
שת Seth | ░ | 25 | שית | |||||||||||
כי for | 25 | כי | ||||||||||||
שת imposed | ░ | 25 | שית | |||||||||||
הבל Abel | ░ | 25 | הבל | |||||||||||
כי for | 25 | כי | ||||||||||||
קין Cain | ░ | 25 | קין | |||||||||||
ולשת and to Seth | ░ | 26 | שית | |||||||||||
ילד was born | ░ | 26 | ילד | |||||||||||
בן a son | ░ | 26 | בן | |||||||||||
ויקרא and he called | ░ | 26 | קרא | |||||||||||
את -- | 26 | את | ||||||||||||
שמו his name | ░ | 26 | שם | |||||||||||
לקרא to call | ░ | 26 | קרא | |||||||||||
בשם in the name of | ░ | 26 | שם | |||||||||||
יהוה Yahweh | 26 | יהוה |
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