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In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord.
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but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.
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Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?
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If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”
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Now Cain 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.
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Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
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Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
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When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”
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Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is more than I can bear.
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Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
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But the Lord said to him, “Not so; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.” Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.
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So Cain went out from the Lord’s presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
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Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch.
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To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.
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Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and raise livestock.
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His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play stringed instruments and pipes.
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Zillah also had a son, Tubal-Cain, who forged all kinds of tools out of bronze and iron. Tubal-Cain’s sister was Naamah.
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Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, listen to me; wives of Lamech, hear my words. I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for injuring me.
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If Cain is avenged seven times, then Lamech seventy-seven times.”
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Adam made love to 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.”
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From Adam to Noah
This is the written account of Adam’s family line. When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God.
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When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.
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After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
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Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.
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He named him Noah and said, “He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.”
