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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Genesis 4 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Genesis 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/3.htm" title="Genesis 3">◄</a> Genesis 4 <a href="../genesis/5.htm" title="Genesis 5">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/genesis/4-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Cain and Abel<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../hebrews/11.htm#4">Hebrews 11:4</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And Adam knew Life, his wife, and she will conceive and bear Cain, and said, I obtained a man of Jehovah. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And she will add to bear his brother Abel; and Abel shall be a feeder of sheep, and Cain was a laborer of the earth. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And it shall be at the end of days, and Cain shall bring in from the fruit of the earth an offering to Jehovah. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And Abel, he also brought in the first-born of his sheep, and their fat. And Jehovah will look to Abel and to his gift. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And to Cain and to his offering he looked not: and Cain will be very angry, and his countenance will fall. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And Jehovah will say to Cain, Why art thou angry, and why does thy countenance fall? <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>If thou shalt do well thou shalt be lifted up; and if thou shalt not do well, sin lies at the entrance; and to thee his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And Cain will speak to Abel his brother; and it shall be in their being in the field, Cain will rise up against Abel his brother, and will kill him.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And Jehovah will say to Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? and he will say, I know not: am I my brother's watcher? <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And he will say, What didst thou? the voice of thy brother's bloods, crying out to me from the earth. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And now cursed art thou, from the earth, which opened her mouth to take thy brother's bloods from thy hand. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>When thou shalt work the earth she shall not add to give her strength to thee. Wandering and fleeing shalt thou be in the earth. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And Cain will say to Jehovah, My sin is great, above bearing. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Lo, thou didst drive me out this day from above the face of the earth, and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be wandering and fleeing in the earth; and it shall be, every one finding me will kill me. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And Jehovah will say to him, Therefore, every one killing Cain, he shall be avenged seven fold. And Jehovah will put a sign upon Cain, lest any finding him, smite him.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Cain went out from the face of Jehovah, and dwelt in the land of Nod, eastward of Eden.<p> <A name="18"></a><p class="hdg">The Descendants of Cain<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And Cain will know his wife, and she will conceive and bear Enoch: and he will be building a city, and will call the name of the city after the name of his son Enoch. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And to Enoch shall be born Irad; and Irad begat Mehujael; and Mehujael begat Methusael; and Methusael begat Lamech. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And Lamech shall take to him two women: the name of the one Adah, and the name of the second, Zillah. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And Adah will bear Jabal; he was the father of him remaining in the tent, and riches. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And his brother's name Jubal; he was father of all laying hold of the harp and pipe. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Zillah, she also will bear Tubal Cain, sharpening every cutting instrument of brass and iron: and Tubal Cain's sister was Naamah.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And Lamech will say his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, and give ear to my word: for I killed a man to my wound, and a son to my cutting.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/4-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>If Cain shall be avenged seven fold, also Lamech seventy and seven.<p> <A name="26"></a><p class="hdg">Seth and Enosh<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/4-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And Adam will know his wife again, and she will bear a son, and she will call his name Seth: for God set me a second seed instead of Abel, for Cain slew him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/4-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And to Seth, to him also a son shall be born, and he will call his name Enos: then it was begun to call in the name of Jehovah.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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