Cain Murders Abel

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And 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.

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

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

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

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when 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.'

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

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lo, 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.'

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And 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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And Cain goeth out from before Jehovah, and dwelleth in the land, moving about east of Eden;

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