Genesis 4:19 T 5
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return.”
20 Adam a named his wife Eve, b because she would become the mother of
all the living.
21 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and c lothed
them. 22 And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us,
knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to r each out his hand and
take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” 23 So the Lord God
banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the g
round from which he
had been taken. 24 After he d
rove the man out, he p
laced on the east side c of
the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to
guard the way to the tree of life.
Cain and Abel
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Adam a made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave
birth to Cain. d She said, “With the help of the Lord I have brought forth e
a man.” 2 Later she gave birth to his brother Abel.
Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. 3 In the c ourse of time Cain
brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord. 4 And Abel
also brought an offering — fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock.
The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering, 5 but on Cain and his
offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was
downcast.
6 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face down
cast? 7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do
what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you
must rule over it.”
8 Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” f While they
were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.
9 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”
“I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
10 The Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries
out to me from the g
round. 11 Now you are under a c urse and driven from the
ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your
hand. 12 When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you.
You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”
13 Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is more than I can bear. 14 Today
you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I
will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
15 But the Lord said to him, “Not so g ; anyone who kills Cain will suffer ven
geance seven t imes over.” Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one
who found him would kill him. 16 So Cain went out from the Lord’s presence
and lived in the land of Nod, h east of Eden.
17 Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave b
irth to
Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch. 18 To
Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was
the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.
19 Lamech married two women, one n
amed Adah and the other Zillah.
a 20,1 Or
The man b 20 Eve probably means living. c 24 Or placed in front
Cain sounds like the Hebrew for brought forth or acquired. e 1 Or have acquired
f 8 Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Masoretic Text does not have
“Let’s go out to the field.” g 15 Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew Very well
h 16 Nod means wandering (see verses 12 and 14).
d 1