Genesis 4:1

And the man knew Eve his wife: and she conceived, and bore Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.

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In The King James Version

And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

In Context

2And she bore again, his brother, Abel; and Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

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Cross References

Genesis 4:25And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son, and called his name Sheth [[Seth]]; for God [said she] hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

Numbers 31:17And now kill ye every male among the little ones, and every woman that hath known man by lying with him shall ye kill.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 4:1

In this chapter we have both the world and the church in a family, in a little family, in Adam's family, and a specimen given of the character and state of both in after-ages, nay, in all ages, to the end of time. As all mankind were represented in Adam, so that great distinction of mankind into saints and sinners, godly and wicked, the children of God and the children of the wicked one, was here represented in Cain and Abel, and an early instance is given of the enmity which was lately put between the seed of the… Read the whole commentary →

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