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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 NIV</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="../">NIV</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 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">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/genesis/4.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Cain and Abel</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Adam <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or The man">a</a></sup></span> made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Cain sounds like the Hebrew for brought forth or acquired.">b</a></sup></span> She said, “With the help of the <span class="name">Lord</span> I have brought forth <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or have acquired">c</a></sup></span> a man.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Later she gave birth to his brother Abel.</p><p class="reg">Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the <span class="name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The <span class="name">Lord</span> looked with favor on Abel and his offering, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then the <span class="name">Lord</span> said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Masoretic Text does not have ''Let's go out to the field.''">d</a></sup></span> While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then the <span class="name">Lord</span> said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”</p><p class="reg">“I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Cain said to the <span class="name">Lord</span>, “My punishment is more than I can bear. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But the <span class="name">Lord</span> said to him, “Not so <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew Very well">e</a></sup></span> ; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.” Then the <span class="name">Lord</span> put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>So Cain went out from the <span class="name">Lord</span>’s presence and lived in the land of Nod, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Nod means wandering (see verses 12 and 14).">f</a></sup></span> east of Eden.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and raise livestock. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play stringed instruments and pipes. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Zillah also had a son, Tubal-Cain, who forged all kinds of tools out of <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or who instructed all who work in">g</a></sup></span> bronze and iron. Tubal-Cain’s sister was Naamah.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Lamech said to his wives,</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1">“Adah and Zillah, listen to me;</p><p class="line2">wives of Lamech, hear my words.</p><p class="line1">I have killed a man for wounding me,</p><p class="line2">a young man for injuring me.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/4-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>If Cain is avenged seven times,</p><p class="line2">then Lamech seventy-seven times.”</p></div> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/4-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Seth probably means granted.">h</a></sup></span> saying, “God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/4-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh.</p><p class="reg">At that time people began to call on <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or to proclaim">i</a></sup></span> the name of the <span class="name">Lord</span>.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>The man</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotebot"><i>Cain</i> sounds like the Hebrew for <i>brought forth</i> or <i>acquired.</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>have acquired</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> <span class="footnotebot">Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Masoretic Text does not have <i>“Let’s go out to the field.”</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotebot">Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew <i>Very well</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> <span class="footnotebot"><i>Nod</i> means <i>wandering</i> (see verses 12 and 14).</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">g</span> <span class="fnverse">22</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>who instructed all who work in</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">h</span> <span class="fnverse">25</span> <span class="footnotebot"><i>Seth</i> probably means <i>granted.</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">i</span> <span class="fnverse">26</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>to proclaim</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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