1And the man knew his wife Eve, and she conceives and bears Cain, and says, “I have acquired a man by YHWH”;
2and she adds to bear his brother, even Abel. And Abel is feeding a flock, and Cain has been servant of the ground.
3And it comes to pass at the end of days that Cain brings from the fruit of the ground a present to YHWH;
4and Abel, he has brought, he also, from the female firstlings of his flock, and from their fat ones; and YHWH looks to Abel and to his present,
5and to Cain and to his present He has not looked; and it is very displeasing to Cain, and his countenance is fallen.
6And YHWH says to Cain, “Why do you have displeasure? And why has your countenance fallen?
7Is there not, if you do well, acceptance? And if you do not do well, sin [[ or a sin-offering ]] is lying at the opening, and its [[ or His ]] desire [is] for you, and you rule over it [[ or by Him ]] .”
8And Cain says to his brother Abel, [[ “Let us go into the field”; ]] and it comes to pass in their being in the field, that Cain rises up against his brother Abel, and slays him.
9And YHWH says to Cain, “Where [is] your brother Abel?” And he says, “I have not known; am I my brother’s keeper?”
10And He says, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to Me from the ground;
11and now, cursed [are] you from the ground, which has opened her mouth to receive the blood of your brother from your hand;
12when you till the ground, it will not add to give its strength to you—a wanderer, even a trembling one, you are in the earth.”
13And Cain says to YHWH, “My punishment is too great than to bear;
14behold, You have driven me today from off the face of the ground, and from Your face I am hid; and I have been a wanderer, even a trembling one, in the earth, and it has been—everyone finding me will slay me.”
15And YHWH says to him, “Therefore, of any slayer of Cain it is required sevenfold”; and YHWH sets to Cain a token that none finding him will slay him.
16And Cain goes out from before YHWH, and dwells in the land, moving about east of Eden;
17and Cain knows his wife, and she conceives, and bears Enoch; and he is building a city, and he calls the name of the city, according to the name of his son—Enoch.
18And born to Enoch is Irad; and Irad has begotten Mehujael; and Mehujael has begotten Methusael; and Methusael has begotten Lamech.
19And Lamech takes to himself two wives, the name of the first Adah, and the name of the second Zillah.
20And Adah bears Jabal, he has been father of those inhabiting tents and [having] purchased livestock;
21and the name of his brother [is] Jubal, he has been father of everyone handling harp and pipe.
22And Zillah, she also bears Tubal-Cain, an instructor of every craftsman in bronze and iron; and a sister of Tubal-Cain [is] Naamah.
23And Lamech says to his wives: “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Wives of Lamech, give ear [to] my saying: For I have slain a man for my wound, || Even a young man for my hurt;
24For sevenfold is required for Cain, || And for Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”
25And Adam again knows his wife, and she bears a son, and calls his name Seth, “for God has appointed for me another seed instead of Abel”: for Cain had slain him.
26And to Seth, to him also a son has been born, and he calls his name Enos; then a beginning was made of preaching in the Name of YHWH.