Genesis 4:2

Holman Christian Standard Bible

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

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

Adam 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

Then Pharaoh asked his brothers, “What is your occupation? ” And they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants, both we and our fathers, are shepherds.”

Genesis 9:20

Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard.

Psalm 127:3

Sons are indeed a heritage from the Lord, children, a reward.

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 has not stood 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 liars.

1 John 3:10

This is how God’s children — and the Devil’s children — are made evident. Whoever does not do what is right is not of God, especially the one who does not love his brother.

1 John 3:12

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

1 John 3:15

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