Genesis 4:1-15

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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.” ²Later she gave birth to his brother Abel.^(D)

Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.^(E) ³In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering^(F) to the Lord.^(G) ⁴And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions^(H) from some of the firstborn of his flock.^(I) The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering,^(J) ⁵but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.

⁶Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry?^(K) Why is your face downcast? ⁷If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door;^(L) it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.^(M)”

⁸Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.”^[d] While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.^(N)

⁹Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”^(O)

“I don’t know,^(P)” he replied. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”

¹⁰The Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.^(Q) ¹¹Now you are under a curse^(R) and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. ¹²When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you.^(S) You will be a restless wanderer^(T) on the earth.^(U)”

¹³Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is more than I can bear. ¹⁴Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence;^(V) I will be a restless wanderer on the earth,^(W) and whoever finds me will kill me.”^(X)

¹⁵But the Lord said to him, “Not so^[e]; anyone who kills Cain^(Y) will suffer vengeance^(Z) seven times over.^(AA)” Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.

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Genesis 4:1 Or The man
Genesis 4:1 Cain sounds like the Hebrew for brought forth or acquired.
Genesis 4:1 Or have acquired
Genesis 4:8 Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Masoretic Text does not have “Let’s go out to the field.”
Genesis 4:15 Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew Very well

Genesis 4:25

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²⁵Adam 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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Genesis 4:25 Seth probably means granted.

Genesis 4:25 in all English translations

Psalm 50:7-23

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⁷“Listen, my people, and I will speak;
    I will testify^(A) against you, Israel:
    I am God, your God.^(B)
⁸I bring no charges^(C) against you concerning your sacrifices
    or concerning your burnt offerings,^(D) which are ever before me.
⁹I have no need of a bull^(E) from your stall
    or of goats^(F) from your pens,^(G)
¹⁰for every animal of the forest^(H) is mine,
    and the cattle on a thousand hills.^(I)
¹¹I know every bird^(J) in the mountains,
    and the insects in the fields^(K) are mine.
¹²If I were hungry I would not tell you,
    for the world^(L) is mine, and all that is in it.^(M)
¹³Do I eat the flesh of bulls
    or drink the blood of goats?

¹⁴“Sacrifice thank offerings^(N) to God,
fulfill your vows^(O) to the Most High,^(P)
¹⁵and call^(Q) on me in the day of trouble;^(R)
I will deliver^(S) you, and you will honor^(T) me.”

¹⁶But to the wicked person, God says:

“What right have you to recite my laws
    or take my covenant^(U) on your lips?^(V)
¹⁷You hate^(W) my instruction
    and cast my words behind^(X) you.
¹⁸When you see a thief, you join^(Y) with him;
    you throw in your lot with adulterers.^(Z)
¹⁹You use your mouth for evil
    and harness your tongue to deceit.^(AA)
²⁰You sit and testify against your brother^(AB)
    and slander your own mother’s son.
²¹When you did these things and I kept silent,^(AC)
    you thought I was exactly^[a] like you.
But I now arraign^(AD) you
    and set my accusations^(AE) before you.

²²“Consider this, you who forget God,^(AF)
or I will tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:^(AG)
²³Those who sacrifice thank offerings honor me,
and to the blameless^[b] I will show my salvation.^(AH)”

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Psalm 50:21 Or thought the ‘I am’ was
Psalm 50:23 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; the meaning of the Masoretic Text for this phrase is uncertain.

Mark 8:11-13

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¹¹The Pharisees came and began to question Jesus. To test him, they asked him for a sign from heaven.^(A) ¹²He sighed deeply^(B) and said, “Why does this generation ask for a sign? Truly I tell you, no sign will be given to it.” ¹³Then he left them, got back into the boat and crossed to the other side.

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