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4:1  Adam made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, ‘With the help of the Lord I have brought forth a man.’
4:2  Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.
4:3  In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord.
4:4  But Abel also brought an offering – fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favour on Abel and his offering,
4:5  but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favour. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.
4:6  Then the Lord said to Cain, ‘Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?
4:7  If 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; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.’
4:8  Now Cain said to his brother Abel, ‘Let’s go out to the field.’ While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.
4:9  Then the Lord said to Cain, ‘Where is your brother Abel?’ ‘I don’t know,’ he replied. ‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’
4:10  The Lord said, ‘What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.
4:11  Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
4:12  When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.’
4:13  Cain said to the Lord, ‘My punishment is more than I can bear.
4:14  Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.’
4:15  But the Lord said to him, ‘Not so; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.’ Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.
4:16  So Cain went out from the Lord’s presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
4:17  Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch.
4:18  To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.
4:19  Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah.
4:20  Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and raise livestock.
4:21  His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play stringed instruments and pipes.
4:22  Zillah also had a son, Tubal-Cain, who forged all kinds of tools out of bronze and iron. Tubal-Cain’s sister was Naamah.
4:23  Lamech said to his wives, ‘Adah and Zillah, listen to me; wives of Lamech, hear my words. I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for injuring me.
4:24  If Cain is avenged seven times, then Lamech seventy-seven times.’
4:25  Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, ‘God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.’
4:26  Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to call on the name of the Lord.