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(Genesis 4:1-16) Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, \u201cI have gotten a man with the help of the LORD<\/span>.\u201d And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground. In the course of time Cain brought to the LORD<\/span> an offering of the fruit of the ground, and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD<\/span> had regard for Abel and his offering, but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell. The LORD<\/span> said to Cain, \u201cWhy are you angry, and why has your face fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it.\u201d<\/p>\n Cain spoke to Abel his brother. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him. Then the LORD<\/span> said to Cain, \u201cWhere is Abel your brother?\u201d He said, \u201cI do not know; am I my brother\u2019s keeper?\u201d And the LORD<\/span> said, \u201cWhat have you done? The voice of your brother\u2019s blood is crying to me from the ground. And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother\u2019s blood from your hand. When you work the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.\u201d Cain said to the LORD<\/span>, \u201cMy punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, you have driven me today away from the ground, and from your face I shall be hidden. I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.\u201d Then the LORD<\/span> said to him, \u201cNot so! If anyone kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.\u201d And the LORD<\/span> put a mark on Cain, lest any who found him should attack him. Then Cain went away from the presence of the LORD<\/span> and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Genesis 4:1-16) Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, \u201cI have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.\u201d And again, she bore his brother Abel.… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,12],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1367,"href":"https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions\/1367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}