Genesis 4:1

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The Story of Cain and Abel Now the man was intimate with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. Then she said,“I have created a man just as the LORD did!”

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  • Gen 3:15 : 15 And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head, and you will attack her offspring’s heel.”
  • Gen 4:25 : 25 And Adam was intimate with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son. She named him Seth, saying,“God has given me another child in place of Abel because Cain killed him.”
  • Gen 5:29 : 29 He named him Noah, saying,“This one will bring us comfort from our labor and from the painful toil of our hands because of the ground that the LORD has cursed.”
  • 1 John 3:12 : 12 not like Cain who was of the evil one and brutally murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother’s were righteous.

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  • Gen 4:25-26
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    25And Adam was intimate with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son. She named him Seth, saying,“God has given me another child in place of Abel because Cain killed him.”

    26And a son was also born to Seth, whom he named Enosh. At that time people began to worship the LORD.

  • Gen 4:16-20
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    16So Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

    17The Beginning of Civilization Cain was intimate with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was building a city, and he named the city after his son Enoch.

    18To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael. Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.

    19Lamech took two wives for himself; the name of the first was Adah, and the name of the second was Zillah.

    20Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the first of those who live in tents and keep livestock.

  • Gen 4:2-3
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    2Then she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel took care of the flocks, while Cain cultivated the ground.

    3At the designated time Cain brought some of the fruit of the ground for an offering to the LORD.

  • Gen 3:20-22
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    20The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

    21The LORD God made garments from skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.

    22And the LORD God said,“Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”

  • Gen 2:21-25
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    21So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was asleep, he took part of the man’s side and closed up the place with flesh.

    22Then the LORD God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

    23Then the man said,“This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

    24That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.

    25The man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed.

  • Gen 5:1-4
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    1From Adam to Noah This is the record of the family line of Adam.When God created humankind, he made them in the likeness of God.

    2He created them male and female; when they were created, he blessed them and named them“humankind.”

    3When Adam had lived 130 years he fathered a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and he named him Seth.

    4The length of time Adam lived after he became the father of Seth was 800 years; during this time he had other sons and daughters.

  • Gen 3:12-13
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    12The man said,“The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it.”

    13So the LORD God said to the woman,“What is this you have done?” And the woman replied,“The serpent tricked me, and I ate.”

  • Gen 4:7-10
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    7Is it not true that if you do what is right, you will be fine? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. It desires to dominate you, but you must subdue it.”

    8Cain said to his brother Abel,“Let’s go out to the field.” While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

    9Then the LORD said to Cain,“Where is your brother Abel?” And he replied,“I don’t know! Am I my brother’s guardian?”

    10But the LORD said,“What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!

  • Ruth 4:13
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    13A Grandson is Born to Naomi So Boaz married Ruth and slept with her. The LORD enabled her to conceive and she gave birth to a son.

  • Gen 3:16-17
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    16To the woman he said,“I will greatly increase your labor pains; with pain you will give birth to children. You will want to control your husband, but he will dominate you.”

    17But to Adam he said,“Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you,‘You must not eat from it,’ the ground is cursed because of you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

  • Gen 3:6-7
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    6When the woman saw that the tree produced fruit that was good for food, was attractive to the eye, and was desirable for making one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of it to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

    7Then the eyes of both of them opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

  • 1 Tim 2:13-14
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    13For Adam was formed first and then Eve.

    14And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, because she was fully deceived, fell into transgression.

  • Gen 6:1
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    1God’s Grief over Humankind’s Wickedness When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,

  • Gen 2:18
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    18The LORD God said,“It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.”

  • 1 Chr 1:1
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    1¶ Adam’s Descendants Adam, Seth, Enosh,

  • Gen 1:27
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    27God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.

  • Gen 3:9
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    9But the LORD God called to the man and said to him,“Where are you?”