Genesis 4:9

And LORD said to Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not. Am I my brother's keeper?

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper?

In Context

8And Cain told Abel his brother. And it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and killed him.

10And he said, What have thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood cries to me from the ground.

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Cross References

Genesis 37:26And Judah said to his brothers, What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

Job 22:13And thou say, What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

Psalms 9:13Have mercy upon me, O LORD. Behold my affliction from those who hate me, thou who lifts me up from the gates of death

Proverbs 28:13He who covers his transgressions shall not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them shall obtain mercy.

Acts 5:4While it remained, did it not remain to thee? And after it was sold, it was in thine authority. Why is it that thou have placed this matter in thy heart? Thou have not lied to men, but to God.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 4:9

8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. We have here the progress of Cain's anger, and the issue of it in Abel's murder, which may be considered two ways:— I. As Cain's sin; and a scarlet, crimson, sin it was, a sin of the first magnitude, a sin against the light and law of nature, and which the consciences even of bad men have startled at. See in it, 1. The sad effects of sin's entrance into the world and… Read the whole commentary →

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