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Cain Murders Abel

Now the man knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain,[a] saying, “I have produced a man with the help of the Lord.”

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  1. 4.1 In Heb Cain resembles the word for produced

12 We must not be like Cain, who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous.

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15 I will put enmity between you and the woman
    and between your offspring and hers;
he will strike your head,
    and you will strike his heel.”(A)

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25 Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and named him Seth,[a] for she said, “God has appointed for me another child instead of Abel, because Cain killed him.”(A)

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  1. 4.25 In Heb Seth resembles the word for appointed

29 he named him Noah, saying, “Out of the ground that the Lord has cursed this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the toil of our hands.”(A)

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17 Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man by sleeping with him.(A)

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