Genesis 4:6-12

Christian Standard Bible

⁶ Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you furious?^(A) And why do you look despondent? ⁷ If you do what is right, won’t you be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.”^(B)

⁸ Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.”^[a] And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.^(C)

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

“I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s guardian?”

¹⁰ Then he said, “What have you done? Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground!^{(D) 11} So now you are cursed, alienated from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood you have shed.^{[b] 12} If you work the ground, it will never again give you its yield. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”^(E)