Genesis 4:6

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And Jehovah saith unto Cain, `Why hast thou displeasure? and why hath thy countenance fallen?

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  • Isa 1:18 : 18 Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!
  • Luke 15:31-32 : 31 `And he said to him, Child, thou art always with me, and all my things are thine; 32 but to be merry, and to be glad, it was needful, because this thy brother was dead, and did live again, he was lost, and was found.'
  • Job 5:2 : 2 For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,

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    2and she addeth to bear his brother, even Abel. And Abel is feeding a flock, and Cain hath been servant of the ground.

    3And it cometh to pass at the end of days that Cain bringeth from the fruit of the ground a present to Jehovah;

    4and Abel, he hath brought, he also, from the female firstlings of his flock, even from their fat ones; and Jehovah looketh unto Abel and unto his present,

    5and unto Cain and unto his present He hath not looked; and it is very displeasing to Cain, and his countenance is fallen.

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    7Is there not, if thou dost well, acceptance? and if thou dost not well, at the opening a sin-offering is crouching, and unto thee its desire, and thou rulest over it.'

    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.

    9And Jehovah saith unto Cain, `Where `is' Abel thy brother?' and he saith, `I have not known; my brother's keeper -- I?'

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

    11and now, cursed `art' thou from the ground, which hath opened her mouth to receive the blood of thy brother from thy hand;

    12when thou tillest the ground, it doth not add to give its strength to thee -- a wanderer, even a trembling one, thou art in the earth.'

    13And Cain saith unto Jehovah, `Greater is my punishment than to be borne;

    14lo, Thou hast driven me to-day from off the face of the ground, and from Thy face I am hid; and I have been a wanderer, even a trembling one, in the earth, and it hath been -- every one finding me doth slay me.'

    15And Jehovah saith to him, `Therefore -- of any slayer of Cain sevenfold it is required;' and Jehovah setteth to Cain a token that none finding him doth slay him.

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    12not as Cain -- of the evil one he was, and he did slay his brother, and wherefore did he slay him? because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.

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    9And Jehovah God calleth unto the man, and saith to him, `Where `art' thou?'

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    13And Jehovah God saith to the woman, `What `is' this thou hast done?' and the woman saith, `The serpent hath caused me to forget -- and I do eat.'

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    24Why dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee?

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    12What -- doth thine heart take thee away? And what -- are thine eyes high?

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    1And it is grievous unto Jonah -- a great evil -- and he is displeased at it;

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    24For sevenfold is required for Cain, And for Lamech seventy and sevenfold.'

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    7And it cometh to pass after Jehovah's speaking these words unto Job, that Jehovah saith unto Eliphaz the Temanite, `Burned hath Mine anger against thee, and against thy two friends, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.