¹⁶ The young woman was very fair to look upon, a virgin, whom no man had known. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up.^(A)

⁷ When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say “my wife,” thinking, “or else the men of the place might kill me for the sake of Rebekah, because she is attractive in appearance.”^(A)

¹⁷ Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man by sleeping with him.^{(A) 18} But all the young girls who have not known a man by sleeping with him, keep alive for yourselves.

⁶ So he left all that he had in Joseph’s charge, and with him there he had no concern for anything but the food that he ate.

Now Joseph was handsome and good-looking.

Cain Murders Abel

4 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.”