Genesis 4장
Cain and Abel
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The man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, "I have produced a man with the help of the LORD."
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Next she bore his brother Abel. Abel became a keeper of flocks, and Cain a tiller of the soil.
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In the course of time Cain brought an offering to the LORD from the fruit of the soil,
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while Abel, for his part, brought one of the best firstlings of his flock. The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering,
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but on Cain and his offering he did not. Cain greatly resented this and was crestfallen.
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So the LORD said to Cain: "Why are you so resentful and crestfallen?
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If you do well, you can hold up your head; but if not, sin is a demon lurking at the door: his urge is toward you, yet you can be his master."
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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.
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Then the LORD asked Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" He answered, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?"
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The LORD then said: "What have you done! Listen: your brother's blood cries out to me from the soil!
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Therefore you shall be banned from the soil that opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
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If you till the soil, it shall no longer give you its produce. You shall become a restless wanderer on the earth."
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Cain said to the LORD: "My punishment is too great to bear.
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Since you have now banished me from the soil, and I must avoid your presence and become a restless wanderer on the earth, anyone may kill me at sight."
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"Not so!" the LORD said to him. "If anyone kills Cain, Cain shall be avenged sevenfold." So the LORD put a mark on Cain, lest anyone should kill him at sight.
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Cain then left the LORD'S presence and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
Descendants of Cain and Seth
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Cain had relations with his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. Cain also became the founder of a city, which he named after his son Enoch.
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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.
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Lamech took two wives; the name of the first was Adah, and the name of the second Zillah.
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Adah gave birth to Jabal, the ancestor of all who dwell in tents and keep cattle.
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His brother's name was Jubal; he was the ancestor of all who play the lyre and the pipe.
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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.
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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 boy for bruising me.
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If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold."
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Adam again had relations with his wife, and she gave birth to a son whom she called Seth. "God has granted me more offspring in place of Abel," she said, "because Cain slew him."
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To Seth, in turn, a son was born, and he named him Enosh. At that time men began to invoke the LORD by name.
Genesis 4장
