| 4 | Genesis | ||
| 1 | The man lay with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. She said, 'With the help of the LORD I have brought a man into being.' | Cain and Abel. Gn.4.1-16 | |
| 2 | Afterwards she had another child, his brother Abel. Abel was a shepherd and Cain a tiller of the soil. | ||
| 3 | The day came when Cain brought some of the produce of the soil as a gift to the LORD; | ||
| 4 | and Abel brought some of the first-born of his flock, the fat portions of them . The LORD received Abel and his gift with favour; | ||
| 5 | but Cain and his gift he did not receive. Cain was very angry and his face fell. | ||
| 6 | Then the LORD said to Cain, 'Why are you so angry and cast down? | ||
| 7 | 'If you do well, you are accepted; if not, sin is a demon crouching at the door. It shall be eager for you, and you will be mastered by it .' | ||
| 8 | Cain said to his brother Abel, 'Let us go into the open country.' While they were there, Cain attacked his brother Abel and murdered him. | ||
| 9 | Then the LORD said to Cain, 'Where is your brother Abel?' Cain answered, 'I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?' | ||
| 10 | The LORD said, 'What have you done? Hark! your brother's blood that has been shed is crying out to me from the ground. | ||
| 11 | Now you are accursed, and banished from the ground which has opened its mouth wide to receive your brother's blood, which you have shed. | ||
| 12 | When you till the ground, it will no longer yield you its wealth. You shall be a vagrant and a wanderer on earth.' | ||
| 13 | Cain said to the LORD, 'My punishment is heavier than I can bear; | ||
| 14 | thou hast driven me today from the ground, and I must hide myself from thy presence. I shall be a vagrant and a wanderer on earth, and anyone who meets me can kill me.' | ||
| 15 | The LORD answered him, 'No: if anyone kills Cain, Cain shall be avenged sevenfold.' So the LORD put a mark on Cain, in order that anyone meeting him should not kill him. | ||
| 16 | Then Cain went out from the LORD's presence and settled in the land of Nod to the east of Eden. | ||
| 17 | Then Cain lay with his wife; and she conceived and bore Enoch. Cain was then building a city, which he named Enoch after his son. | Generations - Cain. Gn.4.17-24 | |
| 18 | Enoch begot Irad; Irad begot Mehujael; Mehuiael begot Methushael; Methushael begot Lamech. | ||
| 19 | Lamech married two wives, one named Adah and the other Zillah. | ||
| 20 | Adah bore Jabal who was the ancestor of herdsmen who live in tents; | ||
| 21 | and his brother's name was Jubal; he was the ancestor of those who play the harp and pipe. | ||
| 22 | Zillah, the other wife, bore Tubal-cain, the master of all coppersmiths and blacksmiths, and Tubal-cain's sister was Naamah. | ||
| 23 | Lamech said to his wives:
wives of Lamech, mark what I say: I kill a man for wounding me, a young man for a blow. | ||
| 24 | Cain may be avenged seven times, but Lamech seventy-seven.' | ||
| 25 | Adam lay with his wife again. She bore a son, and named him Seth , 'for', she said, 'God has granted me another son in place of Abel, because Cain killed him.' | Seth and Enosh. Gn.4.25-26 | |
| 26 | Seth too had a son, whom he named Enosh. At that time men began to invoke the LORD by name. | ||
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