Genesis 4:2
Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel became a shepherd, while Cain was a crop farmer.
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3Sometime later Cain brought some of the produce he'd grown as an offering to the Lord.
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Genesis 4:25Adam slept with his wife again, and she had a son and named him Seth, explaining that, “God has given me another child to replace Abel, the one Cain killed.”
Genesis 30:29“You certainly know how much work I've done for you, and how well your flocks have done under my care.
Genesis 46:32They are shepherds and keep livestock. They have brought with them their flocks and herds and all their possessions.’
Exodus 3:1Moses was a shepherd, looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the Midianite priest. He led the flock far into the wilderness until he came to God's mountain, Mount Horeb.
Psalms 127:3Children certainly are a gift from the Lord, for a family is a blessing.
Luke 11:51from the blood of Abel right up to the blood of Zachariah who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, this generation will be held accountable for all of it.
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 →