Genesis 4:1-12 ▼

1 And Adam knew Life, his wife, and she will conceive and bear Cain, and said, I obtained a man of Jehovah.

2 And she will add to bear his brother Abel; and Abel shall be a feeder of sheep, and Cain was a laborer of the earth.

3 And it shall be at the end of days, and Cain shall bring in from the fruit of the earth an offering to Jehovah.

4 And Abel, he also brought in the first-born of his sheep, and their fat. And Jehovah will look to Abel and to his gift.

5 And to Cain and to his offering he looked not: and Cain will be very angry, and his countenance will fall.

6 And Jehovah will say to Cain, Why art thou angry, and why does thy countenance fall?

7 If thou shalt do well thou shalt be lifted up; and if thou shalt not do well, sin lies at the entrance; and to thee his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

8 And Cain will speak to Abel his brother; and it shall be in their being in the field, Cain will rise up against Abel his brother, and will kill him.

9 And Jehovah will say to Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? and he will say, I know not: am I my brother's watcher?

10 And he will say, What didst thou? the voice of thy brother's bloods, crying out to me from the earth.

11 And now cursed art thou, from the earth, which opened her mouth to take thy brother's bloods from thy hand.

12 When thou shalt work the earth she shall not add to give her strength to thee. Wandering and fleeing shalt thou be in the earth.