The Antiquities of the Jews, 1.52

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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521. Adam and Eve had two sons: the elder of them was named Cain; which name, when it is interpreted, signifies a possession: the younger was Abel, which signifies sorrow. They had also daughters.

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