Genesis 4:2

And she added to give birth to his brother, Habel. And Habel was a shepherd of the flock, and Kain a man working on the ground.

Targum Onkelos

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

1And Adam knew Hava his wife, and she conceived, and gave birth to Kain; and she said I have acquired the man from before the Lord.

3And it was at the end (or complement) of days, that Kain brought of the product of the earth an oblation before the Lord;

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Cross References

Genesis 4:25And Adam knew yet his wife, and she bare a son, and called his name Sheth; Because, said she, the Lord hath given me another son instead of Habel, whom Kain slew.

Genesis 30:29And he said to him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and what thy flocks have been with me;

Genesis 46:32But the men are shepherds of sheep: for the men are masters of flocks, and their sheep and oxen and all that they have they have brought.

Exodus 3:1And Mosheh tended the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the rabba of Midian, and he led the flock to the place of the best pastures of the wilderness, and came to the mountain on which was revealed the glory of the Lord, unto Horeb.

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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