Chapter 4
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And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and she said, "I have acquired a man with the LORD."
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And she again gave birth to his brother Abel. And Abel was a shepherd of sheep, and Cain was serving the ground.
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And it was at the end of days, and Cain brought an offering to the LORD from the fruit of the ground.
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And Abel also brought from the firstborn of his flock and from their fat portions. And the LORD looked with favor on Abel and on his offering.
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And he did not look to Cain and to his offering, and it burned in Cain greatly, and his face fell.
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And the LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen?"
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Is it not true that if you do well, there will be a lifting up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, and you will rule over it.
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And Cain said to Abel his brother. And it was when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.
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And the LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?"
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And he said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's bloods is crying out to me from the ground."
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And now you are cursed from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
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For you will serve the ground, and it will not add to give its strength to you; you will be a wanderer and a fugitive in the land.
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And he said to the LORD, "My iniquity is too great to bear."
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Behold, you have driven me out today from the face of the ground, and from your face I will be hidden. I will be a wanderer and a fugitive in the earth, and everyone who finds me will kill me.
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And the LORD said to him, "Therefore whoever kills Cain, sevenfold will be avenged." And the LORD set a sign for Cain so that no one who found him would strike him.
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And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and dwelt in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
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And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. And he was building a city and called the name of the city after the name of his son Enoch.
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And Enoch fathered Irad, and Irad fathered Mehuiael, and Mehuiael fathered Methushael, and Methushael fathered Lamech.
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Lamech took two wives for himself. The name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other was Zillah.
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And Ada bore Jubal; he was the father of the tent-dweller and livestock.
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And the name of his brother was Jubal; he was the father of all who play the lyre and the pipe.
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And Zillah also bore Tubal-cain, forger of every craft of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
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And Lamech said to his wives Ada and Zillah, "Hear my voice, wives of Lamech; listen! I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me."
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If sevenfold for Cain, then for Lamech seventy-sevenfold.
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Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son. She called his name Seth, for she said, "God has appointed me another seed in place of Abel, for Cain killed him."
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And Seth also fathered a son, and he called his name Enosh. Then people began to call on the name of the LORD.