Genesis 4:2

After that she had another son. His name was Abel. The two became big. They became men. Abel used to care for sheep. Cain used to dig the ground. He used to put foods in the ground, they used to come up, he used to gather them.

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In The King James Version

And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

In Context

1Adam and Eve went from that place Eden. After that Eve had a son. She said, “God has given me a son.” His name was Cain.

3Once Cain took food, he gave it to God.

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Cross References

Genesis 4:25After Abel died Eve had another child. She said, “Cain killed Abel. God in response has given me another child.” She named him Seth.

Genesis 30:29Jacob said to him, “I have worked comepletely for you. I took good care of your animals. You know that.

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 →

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