9And the Lord said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother? And he said, "I do not know: am I my brother's keeper?" 10And He said, "What have you done? Listen! your brother's blood cries out to me from the soil. 6And the Lord said to Cain,ĨAnd Cain said to Abel his brother, "Let us go out to the field," and when they were in the field Cain rose against Abel his brother and killed him. And Cain was very incensed, and his face fell. 4And Abel too had brought from the choice firstlings of his flock, and the Lord regarded Abel and his offering 5but did not regard Cain and his offering. 3And it happened in the course of time that Cain brought from the fruit of the soil an offering to the Lord. The story of Cain's murder of Abel and its consequences is told in Genesis 4:1–18 ( Translation and notes from Robert Alter, "The Five Books of Moses"): ġAnd the human knew Eve his woman and she conceived and bore Cain, and she said, "I have got me a man with the Lord." 2And she bore as well his brother Abel, and Abel became a herder of sheep while Cain was a tiller of the soil. Cain leadeth Abel to death, by James Tissot, c.
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