Genesis 4:9

And Jehovah saith unto Cain, 'Where [is] Abel thy brother?' and he saith, 'I have not known; my brother's keeper — I?'

Young's Literal Translation

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 saith unto Abel his brother, ['Let us go into the field;'] and it cometh to pass in their being in the field, that Cain riseth up against Abel his brother, and slayeth him.

10And He saith, 'What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood is crying unto Me from the ground;

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Cross References

Genesis 37:26And Judah saith unto his brethren, 'What gain when we slay our brother, and have concealed his blood?

Job 22:13And thou hast said, 'What — hath God known? Through thickness doth He judge?

Psalms 9:13Favour me, O Jehovah, See mine affliction by those hating me, Thou who liftest me up from the gates of death,

Proverbs 28:13Whoso is covering his transgressions prospereth not, And he who is confessing and forsaking hath mercy.

Acts 5:4while it remained, did it not remain thine? and having been sold, in thy authority was it not? why [is] it that thou didst put in thy heart this thing? thou didst not lie to men, but to 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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