When Adam was an hundred and thirty years of age, Cain slew Abel his brother.  Truth it is, after many days Cain and Abel offered sacrifice and gifts unto God.  It is to be believed that Adam taught his sons to offer to God their tithes and first fruits.  Cain offered fruits, for he was a ploughman and tiller of earth, and Abel offered milk and the first of the lambs, Moses saith, of the fattest of the flock.  And God beheld the gifts of Abel, for he and his sacrifices were acceptable to our Lord; and as to Cain his sacrifices, God beheld them not, for they were not to him acceptable, he offered withies and thorns.  And as some doctors say, fire came from heaven and lighted the sacrifice of Abel, and the gifts of Cain pleased not our Lord, for the sacrifice would not belight nor burn clear in the light of God.  Whereof Cain had great envy unto his brother Abel, which arose against him and slew him.  And our Lord said to him:  Where is Abel thy brother?  He answered and said:  I wot never, am I keeper of my brother?  Then our Lord said:  What hast thou done?  The voice of the blood of thy brother crieth to thee from the earth, wherefore thou art cursed, and accursed be the earth that received the blood of thy brother by his mouth of thy hands.  When thou shalt work and labor the earth it shall bring forth no fruit, but thou shalt be fugitive, vagabond, and void on the earth.  This Cain deserved well to be cursed, knowing the pain of the first trespass of Adam, yet he added thereto murder and slaughter of his brother.

Then Cain, dreading that beasts should devour him, or if he went forth he should be slain of the men, or if he dwelt with them, they would slay him for his sin, damned himself, and in despair said:  My wickedness is more than I can deserve to have forgiveness, whoso find me shall slay me.  This he said of dread, or else wishing, as who said, would God he would slay me.  Then our Lord said:  Nay not so, thou shalt die, but not soon, for whosoever slayeth Cain shall be punished seven sithes more, for he should deliver him from dread, from labor and misery, and added that he should be punished personally sevenfold more.  This punition shall endure to him in pain unto the seventh, Lameth, whosomever shall slay Cain shall loose seven vengeances.  Some hold that his pain endured unto the seventh generation, for he committed seven sins.  He departed not truly, he had envy to his brother, he wrought guilefully, he slew his brother falsely, he denied it, he despaired and damned, he did no penance.  And after he went into the east, fugitive and vagabond.  Cain knew his wife which bare Enoch, and he made a city and named it Enoch after the name of his son Enoch.  Here it showeth well that this time were many men, though their generation be not said, whom Cain called to his city, by whose help he made it, whom he induced to theft and robbery.