Cain and Abel
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📚And Adam knew✭ Eve his wife, and she conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man by the help of the LORD”. 2 📚And again, she gave birth to his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a cultivator of the ground.3 📚And in process of time it came about that Cain brought an offering✭ to the LORD from the fruit of the ground. 4 📚And Abel also brought an offering, of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat. And the LORD had regard for Abel and for his offering, 5 📚but did not have regard for Cain and for his offering. And Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.
6 📚And the LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry? and why is your face downcast? 7 📚If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin✭ lies at the door. And its desire is for you, and you should rule over it”.
8 📚✭And Cain talked with his brother Abel, and it came about when they were in the field, that Cain attacked Abel his brother, and killed him.
9 📚✭And the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” And he said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”
10 📚And he said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground. 11 📚And now you are cursed✭ from the ground which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. 12 📚When you cultivate the ground, from now on it will not yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth”.
13 📚And Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear. 14 📚Look, today you have driven me out from the face of the ground, and I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth. And it will come about that anyone who finds me will kill me”.
15 📚And the LORD said to him, “Therefore whoever kills Cain will have sevenfold vengeance taken on him”. And the LORD set a mark on Cain, so that no one finding him would kill him. 16 📚And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD✭, and lived in the land of Nod✭, to the east of Eden.
17 📚✭And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. And he built a city and called the name of the city Enoch, after the name of his son. 18 📚✭And Irad was born to Enoch, and Irad fathered Mehujael, and Mehujael begot Methusael, and Methusael begot Lamech.
The character of Cain’s descendants
19 📚And Lamech took for himself two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. 20 📚And Adah gave birth to Jabal. He was the father of those who live in tents, and of those who have cattle. 21 📚And his brother’s name was Jubal. He was the father of all those who play the harp and flute. 22 📚As for Zillah, she also gave birth to Tubal-Cain, a forger of every kind of tool in✭ bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah.
23 📚And Lamech said to his wives,
“Adah and Zillah, hear my voice,
You wives of Lamech,
listen to my speech,
For I have killed a man
for wounding me,
And a young man for hurting me.
24 📚If Cain will be avenged sevenfold,
then Lamech seventy times
sevenfold”.