Seth

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Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Seth from across Jewish tradition.

Adam and Eve's Penance After Expulsion from Eden

Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha

Eve dreamed of blood. Her son's blood. Pouring into the mouth of his brother. After their expulsion from Paradise, Adam and Eve journeyed eastward toward the sunrise and settled th...

Satan Deceives Eve a Second Time at the River

Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha

A dying man asked his wife and son to walk to the edge of Paradise and beg for mercy. They came back with a prophecy -- and a death sentence. Adam lay groaning on his bed, the seve...

Adam Dies and Angels Carry His Soul to the Third Heaven

Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha

The seven heavens opened. The sun and moon went dark. And every angel in creation wept for the first man who ever died. Seth rose from his father's body and went to his mother. "Wh...

God Promises Adam's Resurrection at the End of Days

Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha

Six days. That was how long the archangel Michael had said it would take. And on the sixth day, exactly as foretold, Adam died. When Adam felt the hour of death closing in, he gath...

Adam and the Lawgiver

Philo Philo of Alexandria

We read about Adam and Eve having another son, Seth, and suddenly, he's the one carrying the torch, the one from whom humanity will descend. What gives? The Midrash of Philo, a fas...