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Cain and Abel

Then Adam had intercourse with his wife, and she became pregnant. She bore a son and said, “By the Lord's help I have gotten a son.” So she named him Cain.[a] Later she gave birth to another son, Abel. Abel became a shepherd, but Cain was a farmer.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 4:1 This name sounds like the Hebrew for “gotten.”

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