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

Tiller

Genesis 3:23

Genesis 9:20

Bible References

And abel

But Jacob replied to Laban, "You know how I've served you and how your cattle thrived under my care.

And Israel instructed Joseph, "Your brothers are tending the flock in Shechem. Come here, because I'm going to send you to them." "Here I am!" he responded.

I'll mention that the men are shepherds. Because they've been taking care of livestock, they brought along their flocks, their herds, and everything else that they own.

Pharaoh asked his brothers, "What are your occupations?"

Meanwhile, Moses continued tending the sheep that belonged to his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the sheep to the western desert and came to Horeb, God's mountain, where

Then he chose his servant David, whom he took from the sheepfold.

But the LORD took me from tending the flock and the LORD kept saying to me, "Go, prophesy to my people Israel.'

A keeper

Later on, after Adam had sexual relations with his wife, she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, because "God granted me another offspring to replace Abel, since Cain murdered him."

Children are a gift from the LORD; a productive womb, the LORD's reward.

You belong to your father the Devil, and you want to carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and has never stood for truth, since there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

This is how God's children and the Devil's children are distinguished. No person who fails to practice righteousness and to love his brother is from God.

Tiller

therefore the LORD God expelled the man from the garden of Eden so he would work the ground from which he had been taken.

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