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Genesis 4:7-11 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

7. If you act rightly, you will be accepted; but if not, sin lies in wait at the door: its urge is for you, yet you can rule over it.

8. Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out in the field.” When they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

9. Then the Lord asked Cain, Where is your brother Abel? He answered, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”

10. God then said: What have you done? Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground!

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

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