⁹ Then the Lord said to Cain, ‘Where is your brother Abel? ’

‘I don’t know,’ he replied. ‘Am I my brother’s guardian? ’

¹⁰ Then he said, ‘What have you done? Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground!^(A)

²⁴ and to Jesus, the mediator^(A) of a new covenant,^(B) and to the sprinkled blood, which says better things than the blood of Abel.^(C)

¹² unlike Cain,^(A) who was of the evil one^(B) and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.