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

He said to him, You know how I have served you, and what your cattle has become with me.

And Israel said to Joseph, Do not your brothers feed the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them. And he said to him, Here I am.

And the men are shepherds, for they have been men of cattle. And they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.

And Pharaoh said to his brothers, What is your occupation? And they said to Pharaoh, Your servants are shepherds, both we and our fathers.

And Moses kept the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back side of the desert. And he came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.

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

And Jehovah took me from behind the flock, and Jehovah said to me, Go, prophesy to My people Israel.

A keeper

And Adam knew his wife again. And she bore a son, and called his name Seth. For she said, God has appointed me another seed instead of Abel, because Cain killed him.

Lo, children are the inheritance of Jehovah; the fruit of the womb is a reward.

You are of the Devil as father, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and did not abide in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.

In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the Devil: everyone not practicing righteousness is not of God, also he who does not love his brother.

Tiller

therefore Jehovah God sent him out from the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he had been taken.

And Noah began to be a husbandman. And he planted a vineyard.