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Genesis 4:1
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Genesis 4:1
English Standard Version
Cain and Abel
4 Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten[a] a man with the help of the Lord.”
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- Genesis 4:1 Cain sounds like the Hebrew for gotten
Genesis 4:2
English Standard Version
Genesis 4:2
English Standard Version
2 And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground.
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The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. ESV Text Edition: 2025.
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