Genesis 4:9

Adonai said to Cain [Acquisition], “Where is Abel [Vanity, Mourning], your brother?” He said, “I don’t know. 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

8Cain [Acquisition] said to Abel [Vanity, Mourning], his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain [Acquisition] rose up against Abel [Vanity, Mourning], his brother, and murdered + 4:8. Quoted in 1 John 3:12 him.

10Adonai said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.

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Cross References

Genesis 37:26Judah [Praised] said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

Psalms 9:13ח Have mercy on me, Adonai. 2 See my affliction by those who hate me, 1 and lift me up from the gates of death; 2

Proverbs 28:13He who conceals his rebellious breaches of relationships does not prosper, 2 but whoever yadah ·extend hands in confession· and forsake renounces them finds racham ·merciful love·. 1

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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