Genesis 4:1
And the man knew Eve his wife, and she conceived, and bore Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from LORD.
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Genesis 4:25And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son, and called his name Seth. For, [she said], God has appointed for me another seed instead of Abel, for Cain killed him.
Numbers 31:17Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that has known man by lying with him.
1 John 3:12Not as Cain. He was of the wicked, and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were wrong, and his brother's right.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 4:1
In this chapter we have both the world and the church in a family, in a little family, in Adam's family, and a specimen given of the character and state of both in after-ages, nay, in all ages, to the end of time. As all mankind were represented in Adam, so that great distinction of mankind into saints and sinners, godly and wicked, the children of God and the children of the wicked one, was here represented in Cain and Abel, and an early instance is given of the enmity which was lately put between the seed of the… Read the whole commentary →