Genesis 4:2

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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

Genesis 4:25

John 8:44

1 John 3:10

Tiller

Genesis 3:23

Genesis 9:20

Bible References

And abel

Then Jacob said, You have seen what I have done for you, and how your cattle have done well under my care.

And Israel said to Joseph, Are not your brothers with the flock in Shechem? come, I will send you to them. And he said to him, Here am I.

And these men are keepers of sheep and owners of cattle, and have with them their flocks and their herds and all they have.

And Pharaoh said to them, What is your business? And they said, Your servants are keepers of sheep, as our fathers were before us.

Now Moses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he took the flock to the back of the waste land and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

He took David to be his servant, taking him from the place of the flocks;

And the Lord took me from the flock, and the Lord said to me, Go, be a prophet to my people Israel.

A keeper

And Adam had connection with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son to whom she gave the name of Seth: for she said, God has given me another seed in place of Abel, whom Cain put to death.

You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.

In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.

Tiller

So the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to be a worker on the earth from which he was taken.

In those days Noah became a farmer, and he made a vine-garden.