Genesis 4:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

² She also gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel became a shepherd of flocks, but Cain worked the ground.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² And [next] she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

American Standard Version (1901)

² And again she bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

Common English Bible

² She gave birth a second time to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel cared for the flocks, and Cain farmed the fertile land.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And again she gave birth to his brother Abel. But Abel was a pastor of sheep, and Cain was a farmer.

Genesis 4:2 Cross References

Genesis 3:23

So the Lord God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

Genesis 37:13

Israel said to Joseph, ‘Your brothers, you know, are pasturing the flocks at Shechem. Get ready. I’m sending you to them.’ ‘I’m ready,’ Joseph replied.

Genesis 4:1

The man was intimate with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. She said, ‘I have had a male child with the Lord’s help.’

Genesis 4:3

In the course of time Cain presented some of the land’s produce as an offering to the Lord.

Genesis 47:3

And Pharaoh asked his brothers, ‘What is your occupation? ’ They said to Pharaoh, ‘Your servants, both we and our ancestors, are shepherds.’

Genesis 9:20

Noah, as a man of the soil, began by planting  a vineyard.

Exodus 3:1

Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro,  the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb,  the mountain of God.

Amos 7:15

But the Lord took me from following the flock  and said to me, “Go, prophesy to my people Israel.” ’

Luke 11:50

so that this generation   may be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets shed since the foundation of the world   , #– #

Luke 11:51

from the blood of Abel   to the blood of Zechariah,   who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. ‘Yes, I tell you, this generation will be held responsible.

John 8:44

You are of your father the devil,   and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer   from the beginning   and does not stand in the truth,   because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature,   because he is a liar and the father of lies.

1 John 3:10

This is how God’s children and the devil’s children become obvious. Whoever does not do what is right is not of God, especially the one who does not love his brother or sister.

1 John 3:12

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

1 John 3:15

Everyone who hates his brother or sister  is a murderer,  and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.