The Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen? (A)If you do well, will you not be accepted?[a] And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. (B)Its desire is contrary to[b] you, but you must rule over it.”

Cain spoke to Abel his brother.[c] And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and (C)killed him.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 4:7 Hebrew will there not be a lifting up [of your face]?
  2. Genesis 4:7 Or is toward
  3. Genesis 4:8 Hebrew; Samaritan, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate add Let us go out to the field

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