1. Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain. And she said, “I have given birth to a man with the help of Yahweh.”
2. Then she bore his brother Abel. And Abel became a keeper of sheep, and Cain became a tiller of the ground.
3. And in the course of time Cain brought an offering from the fruit of the ground to Yahweh,
4. and Abel also brought an offering from the choicest firstlings of his flock. And Yahweh looked with favor to Abel and to his offering,
5. but to Cain and to his offering he did not look with favor. And Cain became very angry, and his face fell.
6. And Yahweh said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why is your face fallen?
7. If you do well will I not accept you? But if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. And its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.”
8. Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out into the field.” And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.
9. Then Yahweh said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” And he said, “I do not know; am I my brother’s keeper?”
10. And he said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground.
11. So now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive the blood of your brother from your hand.
12. When you till the ground it shall no longer yield its strength to you. You shall be a wanderer and a fugitive on the earth.”