Genesis 4:2 - Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

² Eve gave birth again to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel became a shepherd, and Cain became a farmer.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² And [next] she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

American Standard Version (1901)

² And again she bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

Common English Bible

² She gave birth a second time to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel cared for the flocks, and Cain farmed the fertile land.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And again she gave birth to his brother Abel. But Abel was a pastor of sheep, and Cain was a farmer.

Genesis 4:2 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 3:23

So the Lord God forced the man out of the Garden of Eden to work the ground he was made from.

Genesis 37:13

Jacob said to Joseph, “Go to Shechem. Your brothers are there with my sheep.” Joseph answered, “I will go.”

Genesis 4:1

Adam had sexual relations with his wife Eve. She became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Cain. Eve said, “With the Lord’s help, I have made a man!”

Genesis 4:3

At harvest time, Cain brought a gift to the Lord. He brought some of the food that he grew from the ground, but Abel brought some animals from his flock. He chose some of his best sheep and brought the best parts from them. The Lord accepted Abel and his gift.

Genesis 47:3

Pharaoh said to the brothers, “What work do you do?” The brothers said to Pharaoh, “Sir, we are shepherds, just as our ancestors were shepherds before us.”

Genesis 9:20

Noah became a farmer and planted a vineyard.

Psalm 127:3

Children are a gift from the Lord, a reward from a mother’s womb.

Exodus 3:1

Moses’ father-in-law was named Jethro. Jethro was a priest of Midian. Moses took care of Jethro’s sheep. One day Moses led the sheep to the west side of the desert. He went to a mountain called Horeb, the mountain of God.

Amos 7:15

I was a shepherd and the Lord took me from following the sheep. The Lord said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’

Luke 11:50

“So you people who live now will be punished for the deaths of all the prophets who were killed since the beginning of the world.

Luke 11:51

You will be punished for the killing of Abel. And you will be punished for the killing of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the Temple. Yes, I tell you that you people will be punished for them all.

John 8:44

Your father is the devil. You belong to him. You want to do what he wants. He was a murderer from the beginning. He was always against the truth. There is no truth in him. He is like the lies he tells. Yes, the devil is a liar. He is the father of lies.

1 John 3:10

So we can see who God’s children are and who the devil’s children are. These are the ones who are not God’s children: those who don’t do what is right and those who do not love their brothers and sisters in God’s family.

1 John 3:12

Don’t be like Cain. He belonged to the Evil One. Cain killed his brother. But why did he kill him? Because what Cain did was evil, and what his brother did was good.

1 John 3:15

Anyone who hates a fellow believer is a murderer. And you know that no murderer has eternal life.