Sacrifice of Cain and Abel, Cain strikes Abel dead, Corruptae naturae effectus (title on object), Emblemata Sacra è praecipuis utriusque testamenti historiis concinnata (Old Testament) (series title), Imagines et figurae bibliorum (series title), In the midst of a landscape with animals, Cain strikes Abel with a raised piece of jawbone, lying on the ground (Gen. 4:8). On the left in the background the two sacrificial altars. The smoke from Cain's sacrifice does not go up. Abel's sacrifice, however, is accepted by God. The light of God shines on Abel, who kneels and stretches his arms to heaven

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