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Instead, Cain told his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the wilderness.”[a] When they were outside in the fields, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

Later, the Lord asked Cain, “Where’s your brother Abel?”

“I don’t know,” he answered. “Am I my brother’s guardian?”

10 “What did you do?” God[b] asked. “Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 4:8 So with SP, LXX, Vg, and Syr; the Heb. lacks Let’s go out to the wilderness.
  2. Genesis 4:10 Lit. he