![]() Am I my brother's keeper?" God lets Cain know he hears the blood of Abel "crying" from the ground and as punishment for this violent act, Cain will have it even harder to grow food and is condemned to a "fugitive" life of wandering. God asks Cain where Abel is, to which Cain famously replies, "I know not. Instead, he invites his brother to go with him to a field (the text suggests that they talk or perhaps quarrel there) and then Cain kills his brother. In response, Cain is "very wroth" (angry and upset) and God tries to counsel him, warning that "sin lieth at the door" if Cain continues to behave that way. When both men offer sacrifices to God - Cain with his fruits and vegetables, and Abel with the "firstlings of his flock" (some of the firstborn sheep) - the Lord rejects Cain's offering and accepts Abel's. Cain, it says in the King James Version of Genesis, was a "tiller of the ground" (i.e., a farmer), while his younger brother Abel was a shepherd. ![]()
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