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and Abel also brought an offering from the choicest firstlings of his flock.[a] And Yahweh looked with favor to Abel and to his offering, but to Cain and to his offering he did not look with favor. And Cain became very angry, and his face fell. And Yahweh said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why is your face fallen? If you do well will I not accept you?[b] But if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. And its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 4:4 Literally “from the firstlings of his flock and from their fat”
  2. Genesis 4:7 Literally “a lifting up”; this is an abbreviation of the Hebrew idiom “to lift up the face,” which means “to accept or regard with favor”