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4:1  The man had intercourse with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, saying, “I have produced a male child with the help of the Lord.”
4:2  Next she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel became a herder of flocks, and Cain a tiller of the ground.
4:3  In the course of time Cain brought an offering to the Lord from the fruit of the ground,
4:4  while Abel, for his part, brought the fatty portion of the firstlings of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering,
4:5  but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry and dejected.
4:6  Then the Lord said to Cain: Why are you angry? Why are you dejected?
4:7  If you act rightly, you will be accepted; but if not, sin lies in wait at the door: its urge is for you, yet you can rule over it.
4:8  Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out in the field.” When they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.
4:9  Then the Lord asked Cain, Where is your brother Abel? He answered, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”
4:10  God then said: What have you done? Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground!
4:11  Now you are banned from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
4:12  If you till the ground, it shall no longer give you its produce. You shall become a constant wanderer on the earth.
4:13  Cain said to the Lord: “My punishment is too great to bear.
4:14  Look, you have now banished me from the ground. I must avoid you and be a constant wanderer on the earth. Anyone may kill me at sight.”
4:15  Not so! the Lord said to him. If anyone kills Cain, Cain shall be avenged seven times. So the Lord put a mark on Cain, so that no one would kill him at sight.
4:16  Cain then left the Lord’s presence and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
4:17  Cain had intercourse with his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. Cain also became the founder of a city, which he named after his son Enoch.
4:18  To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad became the father of Mehujael; Mehujael became the father of Methusael, and Methusael became the father of Lamech.
4:19  Lamech took two wives; the name of the first was Adah, and the name of the second Zillah.
4:20  Adah gave birth to Jabal, who became the ancestor of those who dwell in tents and keep livestock.
4:21  His brother’s name was Jubal, who became the ancestor of all who play the lyre and the reed pipe.
4:22  Zillah, on her part, gave birth to Tubalcain, the ancestor of all who forge instruments of bronze and iron. The sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.
4:23  Lamech said to his wives: “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; wives of Lamech, listen to my utterance: I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me.
4:24  If Cain is avenged seven times, then Lamech seventy-seven times.”
4:25  Adam again had intercourse with his wife, and she gave birth to a son whom she called Seth. “God has granted me another offspring in place of Abel,” she said, “because Cain killed him.”
4:26  To Seth, in turn, a son was born, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to invoke the Lord by name.