Cain
Male · b. 4003 BC
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Family
- Parents
- AdamEve
- Siblings
- AbelSeth
- Children
- Enoch
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Named in 16 verses
- Genesis 4:1 The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.”
- Genesis 4:2 Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
- Genesis 4:3 As time passed, Cain brought an offering to Yahweh from the fruit of the ground.
- Genesis 4:5 but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.
- Genesis 4:6 Yahweh said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?
- Genesis 4:8 Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.
- Genesis 4:9 Yahweh said to Cain, “Where is Abel, your brother?” He said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”
- Genesis 4:13 Cain said to Yahweh, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.
- Genesis 4:15 Yahweh said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, so that anyone finding him would
- Genesis 4:16 Cain left Yahweh’s presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
- Genesis 4:17 Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and named the city after the name of his son, Enoch.
- Genesis 4:24 If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times.”
- Genesis 4:25 Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, saying, “for God has given me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him.”
- Hebrews 11:4 By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respec
- 1 John 3:12 unlike Cain, who was of the evil one and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
- Jude 1:11 Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.