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Genesis 4

Cain and Abel bring offerings; God accepts Abel's, and Cain murders his brother in the field. Cain is sent away marked by God, his line builds a city and develops music and metalwork, and Seth is born to Adam and Eve in Abel's place.

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    Cain: Eve says “I have gotten a man”; Cain sounds like the Hebrew qanah, “get”.

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    Seth: “Appointed”: “God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel.”

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