Genesis 4:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Adah bore Jabal; he was the ancestor of those who live in tents and have livestock.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have cattle and purchase possessions.

American Standard Version (1901)

And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents and have cattle.

Common English Bible

Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the ancestor of those who live in tents and own livestock.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And Adah conceived Jabel, who was the father of those who live in tents and are shepherds.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And Ada brought forth Jabel: who was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of herdsmen.

Genesis 4:20 Cross References

Genesis 25:27

When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

Genesis 4:19

Lamech took two wives; the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

Genesis 4:2

Next she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a tiller of the ground.

Genesis 4:21

His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the ancestor of all those who play the lyre and pipe.

John 8:44

You are from your father the devil, and you choose to do 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 lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Hebrews 11:9

By faith he stayed for a time in the land he had been promised, as in a foreign land, living in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.