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Genesis 4:5-14 Modern English Version (MEV)

5. but for Cain and for his offering, He did not have respect. And Cain was very angry and his countenance fell.

6. The Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your countenance fallen?

7. If you do well, shall you not be accepted? But if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. It desires to dominate you, but you must rule over it.”

8. Cain told Abel his brother. And it came about, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.

9. The Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?”He said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”

10. And then He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to Me from the ground.

11. Now you are cursed from the ground which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

12. From now on when you till the ground, it will not yield for you its best. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”

13. Then Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is more than I can bear.

14. You have driven me out this day from the face of the earth, and from your face will I be hidden; and I will be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth, and it will happen that anyone who finds me will kill me.”

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