Genesis 4:2

New American Standard Bible 2020

And again, she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of flocks, but Cain was a cultivator of the ground.

Cross References

Genesis 3:23

therefore the Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken.

Genesis 37:13

And Israel said to Joseph, “Are your brothers not pasturing the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” And he said to him, “I will go.”

Genesis 4:1

Now the man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, “I have obtained a male child with the help of the Lord.”

Genesis 4:3

So it came about in the course of time that Cain brought an offering to the Lord from the fruit of the ground.

Genesis 47:3

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

Genesis 9:20

Then Noah began farming and planted a vineyard.

Psalm 127:3

¶Behold, children are a gift of the Lord, The fruit of the womb is a reward.

Exodus 3:1

Now Moses was pasturing the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the west 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 the Lord said to me, ‘Go prophesy to My people Israel.’

Luke 11:50

so that the blood of all the prophets, shed since the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation,

Luke 11:51

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the house of God; yes, I tell you, it shall be charged against this generation.’

John 8:44

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

1 John 3:10

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother and sister.

1 John 3:12

not as Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And for what reason did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil, but 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 remaining in him.