Genesis 4:9

And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel your brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?

Updated King James Version

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

8And 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.

10And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood cries unto me from the ground.

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Cross References

Genesis 37:26And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?

Job 22:13And you says, How does God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

Psalms 9:13Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, you that lift me up from the gates of death:

Proverbs 28:13He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy.

Acts 5:4While it remained, was it not yours own? and after it was sold, was it not in yours own power? why have you conceived this thing in yours heart? you have not lied unto men, but unto 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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