Biblical Histories of the Old Testament

Adam and Eve beget children, and cultivate the earth. Genesis 4.

A woodcut illustration depicting the life of Adam and Eve after the fall. In the foreground, Eve is seated on the left nursing an infant, while another child lies in a cradle nearby and a third child plays. On the right, Adam is shown laboring in the field with a primitive hoe or mattock. The background features a wooded landscape with additional figures and animals, illustrating the biblical narrative of the first family cultivating the earth.

Adam and Eve beget children / and till the soil. Genesis 4. original: "Gen. iiij."

The Latin and German headings both refer to the fourth chapter of Genesis, describing the transition from the ease of Eden to the necessity of manual labor and the growth of the first human family.