Genesis 4:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And Adah gave birth to Jabal: he was the father of such as are living in tents and keep cattle.

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  • Gen 4:2 : 2 Then again she became with child and gave birth to Abel, his brother. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a farmer.
  • Gen 4:21 : 21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all players on instruments of music.
  • Gen 25:27 : 27 And the boys came to full growth; and Esau became a man of the open country, an expert bowman; but Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
  • 1 Chr 2:50-52 : 50 The sons of Hur, the oldest son of Ephrathah; Shobal, the father of Kiriath-jearim, 51 Salma, the father of Beth-lehem, Hareph, the father of Beth-gader. 52 And Shobal, the father of Kiriath-jearim, had sons: Haroeh, half of the Manahathites.
  • 1 Chr 4:4-5 : 4 And Penuel, the father of Gedor, and Ezer, the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the oldest son of Ephrathah, the father of Beth-lehem. 5 And Ashhur, the father of Tekoa, had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
  • Jer 35:9-9 : 9 Building no houses for ourselves, having no vine-gardens or fields or seed: 10 But we have been living in tents, and have done everything which Jonadab our father gave us orders to do.
  • John 8:44 : 44 You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.
  • Rom 4:11-12 : 11 And he was given the sign of circumcision as a witness of the faith which he had before he underwent circumcision: so that he might be the father of all those who have faith, though they have not circumcision, and so that righteousness might be put to their account; 12 And the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who keep to the way of that faith which our father Abraham had before he underwent circumcision.
  • Heb 11:9 : 9 By faith he was a wanderer in the land of the agreement, as in a strange land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had a part with him in the same heritage:

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    17 And Cain had connection with his wife and she became with child and gave birth to Enoch: and he made a town, and gave the town the name of Enoch after his son.

    18 And Enoch had a son Irad: and Irad became the father of Mehujael: and Mehujael became the father of Methushael: and Methushael became the father of Lamech.

    19 And Lamech had two wives; the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

  • Gen 4:21-25
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    21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all players on instruments of music.

    22 And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, who is the father of every maker of cutting instruments of brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

    23 And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, give ear to my voice; you wives of Lamech, give attention to my words, for I would put a man to death for a wound, and a young man for a blow;

    24 If seven lives are to be taken as punishment for Cain's death, seventy-seven will be taken for Lamech's.

    25 And Adam had connection with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son to whom she gave the name of Seth: for she said, God has given me another seed in place of Abel, whom Cain put to death.

  • Gen 4:1-2
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    1 And the man had connection with Eve his wife, and she became with child and gave birth to Cain, and said, I have got a man from the Lord.

    2 Then again she became with child and gave birth to Abel, his brother. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a farmer.

  • 1 Chr 1:20-23
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    20 And Joktan was the father of Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah

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  • Gen 10:26-27
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    26 And Joktan was the father of Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah

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    18 And Arpachshad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.

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    4 Adah had a son Eliphaz; and Basemath was the mother of Reuel;

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    5 And Lot, who went with him, had flocks and herds and tents;

  • 1 Chr 1:3-4
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  • Gen 5:4
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    4 And after the birth of Seth, Adam went on living for eight hundred years, and had sons and daughters:

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    21 And Shem, the older brother of Japheth, the father of the children of Eber, had other sons in addition.

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    2 Esau's wives were women of Canaan: Adah, the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite,

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    2 And he had seven sons and three daughters.

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    34 And Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

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    1 Now Jacob was living in the land where his father had made a place for himself, in the land of Canaan.

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    22 And Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of David.