Genesis 4:2

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Genesis 4:2

Then she also gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel became a shepherd of flocks, but Cain worked the ground.

Genesis 47:3

Then Pharaoh asked his brothers, “What is your occupation?”

And they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants, both we and our fathers, are shepherds.”

Genesis 3:23

So the Lord God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

Genesis 4:25-26

Adam was intimate with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, for she said, “God has given me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”

Genesis 9:20

Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard.

Genesis 30:29-31

So Jacob said to him, “You know what I have done for you and your herds.

Genesis 37:13

Israel said to Joseph, “Your brothers, you know, are pasturing the flocks at Shechem. Get ready. I’m sending you to them.”

“I’m ready,” Joseph replied.

Genesis 46:32-34

The men are shepherds; they also raise livestock. They have brought their sheep and cattle and all that they have.

Exodus 3:1

Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Psalm 78:70-72

He chose David His servant
and took him from the sheepfolds;

Psalm 127:3

Sons are indeed a heritage from the Lord,
children, a reward.

Amos 7:15

But the Lord took me from following the flock and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to My people Israel.’”

Luke 11:51

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.

“Yes, I tell you, this generation will be held responsible.

You are of your father the Devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of liars.

1 John 3:10

This is how God’s children—and the Devil’s children—are made evident.

Whoever does not do what is right is not of God, especially the one who does not love his brother.

1 John 3:12

unlike Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.

1 John 3:15

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.

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Summary

Genesis 4:2

And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

And abel

Amos 7:15

A keeper

Tiller

Genesis 3:23

Genesis 9:20

Bible References

And abel

So Jacob said to him, “You know what I have done for you and your herds.

Israel said to Joseph, “Your brothers, you know, are pasturing the flocks at Shechem. Get ready. I’m sending you to them.”

“I’m ready,” Joseph replied.

The men are shepherds; they also raise livestock. They have brought their sheep and cattle and all that they have.

Then Pharaoh asked his brothers, “What is your occupation?”

And they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants, both we and our fathers, are shepherds.”

Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

He chose David His servant
and took him from the sheepfolds;

But the Lord took me from following the flock and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to My people Israel.’”

A keeper

Adam was intimate with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, for she said, “God has given me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”

Sons are indeed a heritage from the Lord,
children, a reward.

This is how God’s children—and the Devil’s children—are made evident.

Whoever does not do what is right is not of God, especially the one who does not love his brother.

Tiller

So the Lord God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard.