Genesis 4:3

One day Cain harvested some of the crops he had grown and brought them to Yahweh as a gift for him,

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.

In Context

2After those boys grew up, Abel ◄tended/took care of► sheep and goats, and Cain became a farmer.

4and Abel took from his flock some of the first lambs that had been born and killed them and, as a gift, gave to Yahweh the fatty parts, which were the best parts. Yahweh was pleased with Abel and his offering,

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Cross References

Numbers 18:12“ am also giving to you the first food that people harvest each year and bring to me—the best olive oil and new wine and grain.

Nehemiah 13:6While Tobias was using that room, I was not in Jerusalem, because in the 32nd year that Artaxerxes was the king of Babylonia, I went back there to report to him. After a while I requested the king to allow me to return to Jerusalem, and he allowed me to go.

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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