Genesis 4TYN

1And Adam lay with Heva is wife, which conceived and bare Cain, and said: I have gotten a man of the LORD.

2And she proceeded forth and bare his brother Abel: And Abel became a shepherd, and Cain became a plowman.

3And it fortuned in process of time, that Cain brought of the fruit of the earth: an offering unto the LORD.

4And Abel, he brought also of the firstlings of his sheep and of the fat of them. And the LORD looked unto Abel and to his offering:

5but unto Cain and unto his offering, looked he not. And Cain was wroth exceedingly, and lowered.

6And the LORD said unto Cain: why art thou angry, and why lowerest thou? Wotest thou not if thou dost well thou shalt receive it?

7But and if thou dost evil, by and by thy sin lieth open in the door. Notwithstanding let it be subdued unto thee, and see thou rule it.

8And Cain talked with Abel his brother. And as soon as they were in the fields, Cain fell upon Abel his brother and slew him.

9And the LORD said unto Cain: where is Abel thy brother? And he said: I can not tell, am I my brother's keeper?

10And he said: What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood cryeth unto me out of the earth.

11And now cursed be thou as pertaining to the earth, which opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood of thine hand.

12For when thou tillest the ground she shall henceforth not give her power unto thee. A vagabond and a renegade shalt thou be upon the earth.

13And Cain said unto the LORD: my sin is greater, than that it may be forgiven.

14Behold thou castest me out this day from off the face of the earth, and from thy sight must I hide myself, and I must be wandering and a vagabond upon the earth: Moreover whosoever findeth me, will kill me.

15And the LORD said unto him: Not so, but whosoever slayeth Cain shall be punished sevenfold. And the LORD put a mark upon Cain that no man that found him should kill him.

16And Cain went out from the face of the LORD, and dwelt in the land Nod, on the east side of Eden.

17And Cain lay with his wife, which conceived and bare Henoch. And he was building a city and called the name of it after the name of his son, Henoch.

18And Henoch begat Irad. And Irad begat Mahuiael. And Mahuiael begat Mathusael. And Mathusael begat Lamech.

19And Lamech took him two wives: the one was called Ada, and the other Zilla:

20And Ada bare Jabal, of whom came they that dwell in tents and possess cattle.

21And his brother's name was Jubal: of him came all that exercise them selves on the harp and on the organs.

22And Zilla she also bare Tubalcain a worker in metal and a father of all that grave in brass and iron. And Tubalcain's sister was called Naema.

23Then said Lamech unto his wives Ada and Zilla: hear my voice ye wives of Lamech and hearken unto my words, for I have slain a man and wounded myself, and have slain a young man, and got myself stripes:

24For Cain shall be avenged sevenfold: but Lamech seventy times sevenfold.

25Adam also lay with his wife yet again, and she bare a son and called his name Seth For God (said she) hath given me another son for Abel whom Cain slew.

26And Seth begat a son and called his name Enos. And in that time began men to call on the name of the LORD.

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