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Forsooth Adam knew Eve his wife, which conceived, and childed Cain, and said, I have gotten a man by God. (And Adam knew his wife Eve, who conceived, and bare Cain, and she said, Now, with the Lord’s help, I have begotten a man.)

And again she childed his brother Abel. Forsooth Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain was an earth-tiller. (And then she bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a shepherd, and Cain was a farmer, who worked the soil.)

Soothly it was done after many days, that Cain offered gifts to the Lord of the fruits of the earth[a];

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 4:3 Not the first fruits, or the best, or it would have been so stated.