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In the left half of the lunette Adam is being buried. The dead man lies stretched out in his newly dug grave and Seth is placing the seeds under his tongue. Adam's family is gathered around the grave, their gestures expressive of their grief. Directly behind the grave stands the tree that will later sprout from one of the seeds; as the angel's prophecy might have told us, it has yet to bear leaves and fruit. Even so, it serves to suggest the leap in time that leads into the subsequent events.
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