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¹ And the man knew his wife Eve, and she conceives and bears Cain, and says, "I have acquired a man by YHWH";² and she adds to bear his brother, even Abel. And Abel is feeding a flock, and Cain has been servant of the ground.

³ And it comes to pass at the end of days that Cain brings from the fruit of the ground a present to YHWH;⁴ and Abel, he has brought, he also, from the female firstlings of his flock, and from their fat ones; and YHWH looks to Abel and to his present,⁵ and to Cain and to his present He has not looked; and it is very displeasing to Cain, and his countenance is fallen.

⁶ And YHWH says to Cain, "Why do you have displeasure? And why has your countenance fallen?⁷ Is there not, if you do well, acceptance? And if you do not do well, sin [[or a sin-offering]] is lying at the opening, and its [[or His]] desire [is] for you, and you rule over it [[or by Him]]."

⁸ And Cain says to his brother Abel, [["Let us go into the field";]] and it comes to pass in their being in the field, that Cain rises up against his brother Abel, and slays him.

⁹ And YHWH says to Cain, "Where [is] your brother Abel?" And he says, "I have not known; am I my brother's keeper?"¹⁰ And He says, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the ground;¹¹ and now, cursed [are] you from the ground, which has opened her mouth to receive the blood of your brother from your hand;¹² when you till the ground, it will not add to give its strength to you—a wanderer, even a trembling one, you are in the earth."

¹³ And Cain says to YHWH, "My punishment is too great than to bear;¹⁴ behold, You have driven me today from off the face of the ground, and from Your face I am hid; and I have been a wanderer, even a trembling one, in the earth, and it has been—everyone finding me will slay me."¹⁵ And YHWH says to him, "Therefore, of any slayer of Cain it is required sevenfold"; and YHWH sets to Cain a token that none finding him will slay him.

¹⁶ And Cain goes out from before YHWH, and dwells in the land, moving about east of Eden;¹⁷ and Cain knows his wife, and she conceives, and bears Enoch; and he is building a city, and he calls the name of the city, according to the name of his son—Enoch.¹⁸ And born to Enoch is Irad; and Irad has begotten Mehujael; and Mehujael has begotten Methusael; and Methusael has begotten Lamech.

¹⁹ And Lamech takes to himself two wives, the name of the first Adah, and the name of the second Zillah.²⁰ And Adah bears Jabal, he has been father of those inhabiting tents and [having] purchased livestock;²¹ and the name of his brother [is] Jubal, he has been father of everyone handling harp and pipe.²² And Zillah, she also bears Tubal-Cain, an instructor of every craftsman in bronze and iron; and a sister of Tubal-Cain [is] Naamah.

²³ And Lamech says to his wives: "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Wives of Lamech, give ear [to] my saying: For I have slain a man for my wound, || Even a young man for my hurt;²⁴ For sevenfold is required for Cain, || And for Lamech seventy-sevenfold."

²⁵ And Adam again knows his wife, and she bears a son, and calls his name Seth, "for God has appointed for me another seed instead of Abel": for Cain had slain him.²⁶ And to Seth, to him also a son has been born, and he calls his name Enos; then a beginning was made of preaching in the Name of YHWH.