Verse 2

Later, she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel tended flocks, while Cain worked the soil.

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  • 1 John 3:15 : 15 Everyone who hates their brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in them.
  • Luke 11:51 : 51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be charged against this generation.
  • 1 John 3:10 : 10 By this the children of God and the children of the devil are distinguished: Anyone who does not practice righteousness and does not love their brother or sister is not of God.
  • 1 John 3:12 : 12 Not like Cain, who was from the evil one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil and his brother’s were righteous.
  • John 8:44 : 44 You are from your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
  • Gen 47:3 : 3 Pharaoh asked Joseph’s brothers, 'What is your occupation?' and they replied to Pharaoh, 'Your servants are shepherds, just as our fathers were.'
  • Exod 3:1 : 1 Now Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
  • Ps 78:70-72 : 70 He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds. 71 From tending the nursing ewes, He brought him to shepherd Jacob, His people, and Israel, His inheritance. 72 He shepherded them with a heart of integrity and guided them with the skillfulness of his hands.
  • Ps 127:3 : 3 Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the womb is a reward.
  • Amos 7:15 : 15 But the Lord took me from tending the flock and said to me, 'Go, prophesy to My people Israel.'
  • Gen 3:23 : 23 So the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.
  • Gen 4:25-26 : 25 Adam was intimate with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, 'God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.' 26 Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh. At that time, people began to call on the name of the LORD.
  • Gen 9:20 : 20 Noah, a man of the soil, began to work the land and planted a vineyard.
  • Gen 30:29-31 : 29 Jacob said to him, 'You know how I have worked for you and how your livestock has fared under my care.' 30 For you had little before I came, but now it has increased greatly. The LORD has blessed you wherever I have been. But now, when can I provide for my own household? 31 Laban asked, 'What shall I give you?' Jacob replied, 'You shall give me nothing. If you do this one thing for me, I will continue to tend and watch over your flock.'
  • Gen 37:13 : 13 Israel said to Joseph, "Aren’t your brothers shepherding the flock at Shechem? Go, and I will send you to them." Joseph replied, "Here I am."
  • Gen 46:32-34 : 32 The men are shepherds; they tend livestock, and they have brought along their flocks, herds, and everything they own. 33 'When Pharaoh calls you in and asks, "What is your occupation?"' 34 You should answer, 'Your servants have tended livestock from our boyhood on, just as our fathers did.' Then you will be allowed to settle in the region of Goshen, for all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians.