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Genesis 4:7-12 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

7. If you behave well, will you not receive? But if you behave badly, will not sin at once be present at the door? And so its desire will be within you, and you will be dominated by it."

8. And Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let us go outside." And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and he put him to death.

9. And the Lord said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" And he responded: "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?"

10. And he said to him: "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries out to me from the land.

11. Now, therefore, you will be cursed upon the land, which opened its mouth and received the blood of your brother at your hand.

12. When you work it, it will not give you its fruit; a vagrant and a fugitive shall you be upon the land."

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