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The Lord asked Cain, “Why are you angry? Why does your face look sad? You know that if you do what is right, I will accept you. But if you don’t, sin is ready to attack you. That sin will want to control you, but you must control it.”[a]

Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.”[b] So they went to the field. Then Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 4:7 But if you … control it Or “But if you don’t do right, sin is crouching at your door. It wants you, but you must rule over it.”
  2. Genesis 4:8 Let’s go … field This sentence is found in the ancient versions but not in the standard Hebrew text.

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