Genesis 4:2

Tree of Life Version

Then she gave birth again, to his brother Abel. Abel became a shepherd of flocks while Cain became a worker of the ground.

Cross References

Genesis 3:23

Adonai Elohim sent him away from the Garden of Eden, to work the ground from which he had been taken.

Genesis 37:13

Israel said to Joseph, “Aren’t your brothers grazing the flocks in Shechem? Come, let me send you to them.” “Here I am,” he said to him.

Genesis 4:1

Now the man had relations with Eve his wife and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, “I produced a man with Adonai.”

Genesis 4:3

So it happened after some time that Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to Adonai,

Genesis 47:3

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

Psalm 127:3

Behold, children are a heritage of Adonai —the fruit of the womb is a reward.

Exodus 3:1

Now Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. So he led the flock to the farthest end of the wilderness, coming to the mountain of God, Horeb.

Amos 7:15

But Adonai took me from following the flock and Adonai said to me: ‘Go, prophesy to My people Israel.’

Luke 11:50

so that the blood of the prophets shed since the foundation of the world might be required from this generation—

Luke 11:51

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the one who perished between the altar and the house of God. Yes, I tell you, it will be required from 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 speaks lies he is just being himself—for he is a liar and the father of lies.

1 John 3:10

It is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the devil by this—anyone who does not act righteously or love his brother is not of God.

1 John 3:12

Do not be like Cain, who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, while 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 abiding in him.