Genesis 4:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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

And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.

Genesis 4:19

And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

Genesis 4:2

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

Genesis 4:21

And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and pipe.

John 8:44

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

Hebrews 11:9

By faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: