Adam and Eve Family Tree: Every Name in the First and Second Books of Adam and Eve

The Short Version

The Adam and Eve family tree in The First and Second Books of Adam and Eve has five children: Cain and his twin sister Luluwa, Abel and his twin sister Aklia, and Seth. Cain marries Luluwa, and Seth marries Aklia. From Seth, the book follows one line of eldest sons down to Noah: Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech and Noah, with Noah’s son Shem named once. On Cain’s side it names Lamech the blind, his son Atun, Atun’s wife Hazina, and Genun.

This is the family as this ancient Christian text tells it, not as Genesis tells it. The text is a late legend, often called The Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan, and my fact check covers where it comes from. Every link below has a book and chapter reference from the edition I read, so you can check it yourself.

Jump to: The tree · Every name in one table · How many children? · Cain’s wife · Seth’s line · Cain’s line · How this differs from Genesis

The Adam and Eve Family Tree

Here is the whole tree in one view. Each indent is one generation, and a dashed note means the book skips or leaves the generations unclear. Marriages are shown with a plus sign.

Two Lamechs appear, and they are different men. Lamech the blind belongs to Cain’s family. Lamech the father of Noah belongs to Seth’s.

Family of Adam and Eve: Every Name in One Table

This table lists every named member of the family in the text, with the chapter where you can find each link. Book One uses Roman numerals up to LXXIX; Book Two starts again at I and runs to XXII.

B1 means the First Book, B2 the Second. Cainan’s age comes from Book Two, chapter XV, which says he was 910 when his final illness came, then describes his death.

How Many Children Did Adam and Eve Have?

Five, according to this book. After Seth is born, the text says plainly that Adam and Eve “had no more children, only those five, Cain, Luluwa, Abel, Aklia, and Seth” (Book Two, ch. II).

They came in three births. Eve first bore Cain with a twin sister, Luluwa, whose name the book says means “beautiful” (Book One, ch. LXXIV). Then came Abel with a twin sister (Book One, ch. LXXV). Seth was born alone, after seven years of mourning for Abel (Book Two, chs. I and II).

Did Adam and Eve Have Daughters?

Yes. This book names two: Luluwa and Aklia. Genesis mentions only that Adam had “sons and daughters,” without names.

There is one naming wrinkle worth knowing. In the edition I read, the heading of Book One, chapter LXXV, reads “The birth of Abel and Aklemia,” but the verse itself says “They named the son Abel and the daughter Aklia.” Book Two then calls Seth’s bride “your sister Aklia, Abel’s sister” (ch. VII) and counts only five children. So Aklemia and Aklia appear to be two spellings of one daughter, Abel’s twin, rather than a third girl. Older translations spell the names in other ways, which is why you will see variants online.

Who Was Cain’s Wife?

In this book, Cain’s wife is his own twin sister, Luluwa. That is the book’s answer to the old question of where Cain found a wife.

The plan was different. Adam intended to marry Cain to Abel’s sister and Abel to Cain’s sister (Book One, ch. LXXVIII). Satan tells Cain he is being cheated of the more beautiful sister, and that resentment feeds into the murder. After Abel’s death and the mourning, Cain “married his sister Luluwa without permission from his father and mother” and moved down the mountain, where she bore him children (Book Two, ch. I).

Who Was Seth’s Wife?

Seth married Aklia, Abel’s twin sister. Adam arranged it when Seth was fifteen, partly out of fear that Satan would overcome the boy otherwise, and Seth agreed out of obedience (Book Two, ch. VII).

Seth fathered Enos at twenty, “then he fathered other children” (Book Two, ch. VII). Only Enos is named. So the whole line of patriarchs runs through Seth and Aklia, which makes Abel’s twin the ancestor of Noah in this telling.

Seth’s Line From Adam to Noah

The Second Book is really a history of this line. Each leader takes charge of the family on the holy mountain beside the Cave of Treasures, where Adam’s body lies. Each one, on his deathbed, gives the next the same warning: do not go down the mountain to Cain’s children.

The chain is laid out in two places. Book Two, chapter VII, gives Seth to Enos to Cainan to Mahalaleel. Chapter XII has Seth’s deathbed gathering, where Enos comes with “Cainan, his son, and Mahalaleel, Cainan’s son, and Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, and Enoch, Jared’s son.” Chapter XXI, at Jared’s deathbed, names “Methuselah Enoch’s son, and Lamech the son of Methuselah, and Noah the son of Lamech.”

The handovers are clear. Enos leads after Seth (ch. XII), Cainan after Enos (ch. XIV), Mahalaleel, Cainan’s firstborn, after Cainan (ch. XV), and Jared, Mahalaleel’s eldest, after him (ch. XVI). It is in Jared’s time that Satan’s disguised company lures him away, and that Genun’s music draws his people down (chs. XVII to XX).

The book ends with the line almost empty. Enoch ministers for 385 years and is then carried by God into the light (ch. XXII). Only “Methuselah, Lamech, and Noah” are left on the holy mountain, waiting for the Flood (ch. XXII).

Who Was Noah’s Son in This Book?

Only one of Noah’s sons is named: Shem. On his deathbed, Jared tells Noah that he will carry Adam’s body onto the ark, and that “your son Shem” will lay it “in the middle of the land, the place in which salvation will be brought about” (Book Two, ch. XXI).

The book ends before the Flood, so it never reaches Noah’s family on the ark. Ham and Japheth are not named in it.

Cain’s Line

The book gives Cain’s family much less attention, and it never lays out a clear generation by generation list. It says Luluwa bore children who “multiplied bit by bit” below the mountain (Book Two, ch. I).

Later it introduces “Lamech the blind,” described as “one of the sons of Cain,” with a son named Atun (Book Two, ch. XIII). Atun’s wife is Hazina, and their son is a young shepherd who calls Cain “our grandfather.” The text uses these family words loosely, so the exact number of generations between Cain and Lamech is not given, which is why the tree above leaves a gap.

That chapter holds the book’s grimmest family scene. Lamech, blind, shoots at what the shepherd takes for an intruder, and kills Cain. Then, in remorse and rage, he kills the shepherd too (Book Two, ch. XIII).

The last named member of Cain’s family is Genun, “the son of Lamech the blind who killed Cain” (Book Two, ch. XX). Under Satan’s influence, he makes musical instruments, strong drink, dyed clothes and weapons, and his festivals pull Seth’s children down from the mountain.

How the Two Families Split

The tree is also the book’s moral map. After Adam’s death, God’s word tells Seth to “separate your descendants from that of your brother Cain” (Book Two, ch. X). Seth’s family lives northward on the mountain, Cain’s family below and westward (ch. XI).

Seth’s children are called “Children of God” in this book because of their purity (ch. XI). My fact check explains how this reading answers the puzzle of the sons of God in Genesis 6. For the full story around each name, see the chapter by chapter summary.

How This Differs From Genesis

This section compares the book only with what Genesis 4 and 5 state directly. It is a reading aid, not a judgment on either text.

Both agree that Adam lived 930 years (Genesis 5:5; B2 IX). Genesis does not describe how Cain died; this book does (B2 XIII).

Your Turn

Which name surprised you most on this tree? For the whole story behind these names, read the summary, and for my take on the book itself, see the review.