Cain and Abel

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.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 4:1 Or The man
  2. Genesis 4:1 Cain sounds like the Hebrew for brought forth or acquired.
  3. Genesis 4:1 Or have acquired

And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.

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Later she gave birth to his brother Abel.(A)

Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.(B)

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And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

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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)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 4:25 Seth probably means granted.

25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

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When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image;(A) and he named him Seth.(B)

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And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:

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After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.

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And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:

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