Before our birth, or need have victims to90

Atone for this mysterious, nameless sin—

If it be such a sin to seek for knowledge?

Adah. Alas! thou sinnest now, my Cain: thy words

Sound impious in mine ears.

Cain.‍Then leave me!

Adah.‍Never,

Though thy God left thee.

Cain.‍Say, what have we here?

Adah. Two altars, which our brother Abel made