Genesis 4:9

And the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I do not know!” he answered. “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

8Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.

10“What have you done?” replied the LORD. “The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.

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Cross References

Genesis 37:26Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?

Job 22:13Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?

Psalms 9:13Be merciful to me, O LORD; see how my enemies afflict me! Lift me up from the gates of death,

Proverbs 28:13He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.

Acts 5:4Did it not belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? How could you conceive such a deed in your heart? You have 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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