Abel was the son of Adam and Eve. He became a shepherd and presented lambs as an offering to God (Genesis 4:4). His older brother Cain, who was angry because his own offering had not been acceptable to God (Genesis 4:5), killed Abel. This was the first murder in the Bible (Genesis 4:8). God described Abel\u2019s blood as crying out from the ground (Genesis 4:10).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Abel was the son of Adam and Eve. He became a shepherd and presented lambs as an offering to God (Genesis 4:4). His older brother Cain, who was angry because… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032"}],"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=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2033,"href":"https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions\/2033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iknowthebible.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}