Seth
Sign in to saveSeth is the third son of Adam and Eve within the Abrahamic religions. The Hebrew Bible names two of his siblings as Cain and Abel. According to , Seth was born after Abel's murder by Cain, and Eve believed that God had appointed him as a replacement for Abel.
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Seth is the third son of Adam and Eve in Abrahamic religious tradition, born after his brother Abel was killed by his brother Cain. According to biblical accounts, Eve saw Seth as a divinely appointed replacement for Abel, making him significant in the early genealogy of humanity within these faiths.
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- Seth
- Person.image
- Spas na Ilyine - Patriarch Seth 2 (cropped).jpg
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- Detail from fresco by Theophanes the Greek, 1378
- Person.death_date
- 3070 BC (aged 912)
- Person.birth_date
- 3982 BC
- Person.relatives
- In Genesis:Abel (brother)Cain (brother)Enos (son)Kenan (great-grandson)Mahalalel (great-great-grandson)Jared (great-great-great-grandson)Enoch (great-great-great-great-grandson)Methuselah (great-great-great-great-great-grandson)Lamech (great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson)According to later traditions:Aclima (sister)Azura (sister)
- Person.spouse
- Azura (his sister)
- Person.children
- In Genesis:EnosIn The Book of Jubilees:Noam (Jubilees 4:13)
- Person.father
- Adam
- Person.mother
- Eve
- Saint.honorific_prefix
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Seth is the third son of Adam and Eve within the Abrahamic religions. The Hebrew Bible names two of his siblings as Cain and Abel. According to , Seth was born after Abel's murder by Cain, and Eve believed that God had appointed him as a replacement for Abel.
==Biblical information== According to the Book of Genesis, Seth was born when Adam was 130 years old (according to the Masoretic Text), or 230 years old (according to the Septuagint), "a son in his likeness and image". Genesis 5:4-5 states that Adam fathered "other sons and daughters" before his death, when he was 930 years old. According to the same account, Seth died at the age of 912 (that is, 14 years before Noah's birth).