And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers, who have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it.” — Acts 7:51-53 Abel's righteousness, like Abraham's, wasn't his own. His righteousn...
8 Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.”[b] And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him. 9 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” He said, “I do not know; am I my brother’s keeper?
Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”New Living TranslationAdam had sexual relations with his wife again, and she gave birth to another son. She named ...
while Abel brought the firstborn of his sheep. God favored Abel's sacrifice because it was an offering that came from the best Abel had to give. This made Cain very angry and jealous. Cain lured his brother Abel into the fields and killed him with a rock. The Lord calls to Cain, ask...
By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. Jump to Previous AccountActionsBrother'sCainChildDeathDeedsEvilGoodKillKilledMurderMurderedReasonResembleRighteo...
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[c] And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother, Abel, and killed him.9 Afterward the Lord asked Cain, “Where is your brother? Where is Abel?” “I don’t know,” Cain responded. “Am I my brother’s guardian?”...
Keywords:alienation, Byronic hero, intertextuality, narrator, paraphrase, versenovel, Lord Byron, Christoph Ransmayr1 IntroductionAs pointed out by Quinones (2014, 3), the biblical story of Cain and Abel is an ar-chetypal story which has often been rewritten in literature. The description of ...
1. Genesis Chapter 4 Verse 8 8. “And Cain said to Abel his brother: Let us go forth abroad. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and slew him.” 2. St. Luke Chapter 13 Verses 6 – 9 6. “He spoke a parable: A certain man had a...
Cain offered of the fruits of the earth; Abel of the “firstlings of his flock and of their fat”. By some means not indicated in the sacred text, perhaps, as has been thought, by some such sign as the fire which consumed the offering of Gedeon (Judges, vi, 21) or that of Elias...