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Azura (also Aclima or Balbira) was the daughter of Adam and Eve, the twin of Abel, and both the wife and sister of Seth, as described in chapter 4 of the Book of Jubilees. In an effort to explain where Cain and Abel acquired wives, some traditional sources stated that each child of Adam and Eve was born with a twin who became their mate.

Azura

In Muslim tradition, Abel was born with a twin sister named Azura, and Cain with a twin sister named Aclima. Adam wished Cain to marry Abel's twin sister and Abel to marry Cain's. However, Cain wished to marry Aclima rather than Azura. Adam proposed to refer the question to God by means of a sacrifice, and God rejected Cain's sacrifice, signifying his disapproval of Cain's marriage to Aclima. Cain slew his brother in a fit of jealousy.

Some sources in the Eastern Orthodox traditions give the name Azura to Cain's twin sister.

Aclima

In another Muslim tradition, Aclima was Abel's twin sister, while Cain's twin sister was named Lusia.

Balbira

In the Jewish work Seder Hadorot, Abel's twin sister is called Balbira.

See also

• List of names for the biblical nameless
• Incest in the Bible

References

1. Amaru, Betsy (1999). The Empowerment of Women in the Book of Jubilees. p. 17.
2. "The Wesley Center Online: The Book Of Jubilees". wesley.nnu.edu. Retrieved 2016-07-19.
3. Brewer, E. Cobham. "Brewer's dictionary of phrase and fable." (1894).
4. Brewer, Cobham (2001). Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. p. 197.
5. "Cain", Dictionnaire des sciences occultes (Encycloedie Theologique Vol. 48), ed. Jacques Paul Migne, cols. 297–298.
6. Burrington, Gilbert. An Arrangement of the Genealogies in the Old Testament and Apocrypha: To which are Added, from the Same Authorities, a Selection of Single Names, and Chronological Tables of the Kings of Egypt, Syria, and Assyria: with Notes Critical, Philological, and Explanatory; and Copious Indexes, in Two Volumes. Vol. 1. Rivington, 1836.
7. Gibson, Margaret (2012). Apocrypha Arabica. Cambridge University Press. p. 11.
8. Seder Hadorot 8a
9. Abarbanel Gen. 4,1 as cited by Codex Judaica

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