Genesis 4:9

And the Lord said to Cain: Where is thy brother Abel? And he answered, I know not: am I my brother's keeper?

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 said to Abel his brother: Let us go forth abroad. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and slew him.

10And he said to him: What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me from the earth.

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Cross References

Genesis 37:26And Juda said to his brethren: What will it profit us to kill our brother, and conceal his blood?

Job 22:13And thou sayst: What doth God know? and he judgeth as it were through a mist.

Psalms 9:13For requiring their blood he hath remembered the: he hath not forgotten the cry of the poor.

Proverbs 28:13He that hideth his sins, shall not prosper: but he that shall confess, and forsake them, shall obtain mercy.

Acts 5:4Whilst it remained, did it not remain to thee? and after it was sold, was it not in thy power? Why hast thou conceived this thing in thy heart? Thou hast 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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