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 he said unto him, "Thou knowest what service I have done thee, and in what taking thy cattle have been under me:

and Israel said unto Joseph, "Do not thy brethren keep in Shechem? Come, that I may send thee to them." And he answered, "Here am I."

and how they are shepherds," - for they were men of cattle - "and they have brought their sheep and their oxen and all that they have with them.

And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, "What is your occupation?" And they said unto Pharaoh, "Feeders of sheep are thy servants, both we and also our fathers."

Moses kept the sheep of Jethro his father-in-law, priest of Midian, and he drove the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, Horeb.

He chose David also his servant, and took him away from the sheepfolds.

the LORD took me, and said unto me, 'Go thy way, and prophesy unto my people of Israel.'

A keeper

Adam also lay with his wife yet again, and she bare a son and called his name Seth: "For God," said she, "hath given me another son for Abel whom Cain slew."

Lo, children, and the fruit of the womb are a heritage and gift, that cometh of the LORD.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father, ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning; And abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, then speaketh he of his own. For he is a liar, and the father thereof.

And hereby are the sons of God known, and also the sons of the devil. All that work not righteousness, are not of God, nor he that loveth not his brother.

Tiller

and the LORD God cast him out of the garden of Eden, to till the earth whence he was taken.

And Noah, being a husbandman, went forth and planted a vineyard,