Genesis 4:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

Then again she became with child and gave birth to Abel, his brother. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a farmer.

Cross References

1 John 3:15

Anyone who has hate for his brother is a taker of life, and you may be certain that no taker of life has eternal life in him.

1 John 3:12

Not being of the Evil One like Cain, who put his brother to death. And why did he put him to death? Because his works were evil and his brother's works were good.

Luke 11:51

From the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who was put to death between the altar and the Temple. Yes, I say to you, It will come on this generation.

1 John 3:10

In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.

John 8:44

You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.

Genesis 47:3

And Pharaoh said to them, What is your business? And they said, Your servants are keepers of sheep, as our fathers were before us.

Exodus 3:1

Now Moses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he took the flock to the back of the waste land and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Amos 7:15

And the Lord took me from the flock, and the Lord said to me, Go, be a prophet to my people Israel.

Psalm 127:3

See, sons are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the body is his reward.

Genesis 37:13

And Israel said to Joseph, Are not your brothers with the flock in Shechem? come, I will send you to them. And he said to him, Here am I.

Genesis 9:20

In those days Noah became a farmer, and he made a vine-garden.

Genesis 3:23

So the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to be a worker on the earth from which he was taken.

Luke 11:50

So that punishment may come on this generation for the blood of all the prophets which was given from the earliest days;

Genesis 4:1

And the man had connection with Eve his wife, and she became with child and gave birth to Cain, and said, I have got a man from the Lord.

Genesis 4:3

And after a time, Cain gave to the Lord an offering of the fruits of the earth.