Genesis 4:9

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

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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 out into the plain; and it came to pass that when they were in the plain Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

10And the Lord said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood cries to me out of the ground.

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Cross References

Genesis 37:26And Judas said to his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?

Job 22:13And thou hast said, What does the Mighty One know? does he judge in the dark?

Psalms 9:13For he remembered them, in making inquisition for blood: he has not forgotten the supplication of the poor.

Proverbs 28:13He that covers his own ungodliness shall not prosper: but he that blames himself shall be loved.

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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