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Genesis

Cain and Abel.  Gn.4.1-16

¹The 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.' ²Afterwards she had another child, his brother Abel. Abel was a shepherd and Cain a tiller of the soil. ³The day came when Cain brought some of the produce of the soil as a gift to the LORD; ⁴and Abel brought some of the first-born of his flock, the fat portions of them Or some of the first-born, that is the sucklings, of his flock. The LORD received Abel and his gift with favour; ⁵but Cain and his gift he did not receive. Cain was very angry and his face fell. ⁶Then the LORD said to Cain, 'Why are you so angry and cast down?

⁷'If you do well, you are accepted; Or you hold your head up
if not, sin is a demon crouching at the door.
It shall be eager for you, and you will be mastered by it Or but you must master it.'

⁸Cain said to his brother Abel, 'Let us go into the open country.' While they were there, Cain attacked his brother Abel and murdered him. ⁹Then the LORD said to Cain, 'Where is your brother Abel?' Cain answered, 'I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?' ¹⁰The LORD said, 'What have you done? Hark! your brother's blood that has been shed is crying out to me from the ground. ¹¹Now you are accursed, and banished from Or more than (cp 3.17) the ground which has opened its mouth wide to receive your brother's blood, which you have shed. ¹²When you till the ground, it will no longer yield you its wealth. You shall be a vagrant and a wanderer on earth.' ¹³Cain said to the LORD, 'My punishment is heavier than I can bear; ¹⁴thou 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.' ¹⁵The 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. ¹⁶Then Cain went out from the LORD's presence and settled in the land of Nod That is Wandering Or and he lived as a wanderer in the land to the east of Eden.

Generations - Cain.  Gn.4.17-24

¹⁷Then Cain lay with his wife; and she conceived and bore Enoch. Cain was then building a city, which he named Enoch after his son. ¹⁸Enoch begot Irad; Irad begot Mehujael; Mehuiael begot Methushael; Methushael begot Lamech. ¹⁹Lamech married two wives, one named Adah and the other Zillah. ²⁰Adah bore Jabal who was the ancestor of herdsmen who live in tents; ²¹and his brother's name was Jubal; he was the ancestor of those who play the harp and pipe. ²²Zillah, the other wife, bore Tubal-cain, the master of all coppersmiths and blacksmiths, and Tubal-cain's sister was Naamah. ²³Lamech said to his wives:

'Adah and Zillah, listen to me ;
wives of Lamech, mark what I say:
I kill a man for wounding me,
a young man for a blow.
²⁴Cain may be avenged seven times,
but Lamech seventy-seven.'

Seth and Enosh.  Gn.4.25-26

²⁵Adam lay with his wife again. She bore a son, and named him Seth That is Granted, 'for', she said, 'God has granted me another son in place of Abel, because Cain killed him.' ²⁶Seth too had a son, whom he named Enosh. At that time men began to invoke the LORD This represents the Hebrew consonants YHWH, probably pronounced Yahweh, but traditionally read as Jehovah by name.

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