Pharaoh asked the brothers, “What is your occupation?” “Your servants are shepherds,” they replied to Pharaoh, “just as our fathers were.”
Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.
So they asked him, “Tell us, who is responsible for making all this trouble for us? What kind of work do you do? Where do you come from? What is your country? From what people are you?”
For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”