Cain and Abel

4 Adam^[a] made love to his wife^(A) Eve,^(B) and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain.^[b](C) She said, “With the help of the Lord I have brought forth^[c] a man.”

¹² Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one^(A) and murdered his brother.^(B) And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous.^(C)

²⁵ Adam made love to his wife^(A) again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth,^[a](B) saying, “God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”^(C)

²⁹ He named him Noah^[a](A) and said, “He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.^(B)”

¹⁷ Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man,^(A)