Genesis 4:2

And she further bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a shepherd, but Cain was a husbandman.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

In Context

1And Man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bore Cain, and said, I have acquired a man with Jehovah.

3And in process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering to Jehovah.

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Cross References

Genesis 4:25And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son, and called his name Seth: For God has appointed me another seed instead of Abel, because Cain has slain him.

Genesis 30:29And he said to him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and what thy cattle has become with me.

Genesis 46:32and the men are shepherds, for they have been occupied with cattle; and they have brought their sheep, and their cattle, and all that they have.

Exodus 3:1And Moses tended the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock behind the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God to Horeb.

Psalms 127:3Lo, children are an inheritance from Jehovah, [and] the fruit of the womb a reward.

Luke 11:51from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the house; yea, I say to you, it shall be required of this generation.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 4:2-3

Cain and Abel. ( b. c. 3875.) 1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord . 2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. Adam and Eve had many sons and daughters, ch. v. 4 . But Cain and Abel seem to have been the two eldest. Some think they were twins, and, as Esau and Jacob, the elder hated and the younger loved. Though God had cast our first parents out of paradise, he did not write… Read the whole commentary →

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