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

"You know how I have worked for you," Jacob replied, "and how well your livestock have fared under my care.

Israel said to Joseph, "Your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I will send you to them." "I'm ready," Joseph replied.

The men are shepherds; they take care of livestock. They have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.'

Pharaoh said to Joseph's brothers, "What is your occupation?" They said to Pharaoh, "Your servants take care of flocks, just as our ancestors did."

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

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

Then the Lord took me from tending flocks and gave me this commission, 'Go! Prophesy to my people Israel!'

A keeper

And Adam had marital relations with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son. She named him Seth, saying, "God has given me another child in place of Abel because Cain killed him."

Yes, sons are a gift from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward.

You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness -- the one who does not love his fellow Christian -- is not of God.

Tiller

So the Lord God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

Noah, a man of the soil, began to plant a vineyard.