1. The man Adam knew his wife Eve intimately. She became pregnant and gave birth to Cain, and said, "I have given life to a man with the Lord’s help."
2. She gave birth a second time to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel cared for the flocks, and Cain farmed the fertile land.
3. Some time later, Cain presented an offering to the Lord from the land’s crops
4. while Abel presented his flock’s oldest offspring with their fat. The Lord looked favorably on Abel and his sacrifice
5. but didn’t look favorably on Cain and his sacrifice. Cain became very angry and looked resentful.
6. The Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why do you look so resentful?
7. If you do the right thing, won’t you be accepted? But if you don’t do the right thing, sin will be waiting at the door ready to strike! It will entice you, but you must rule over it."
8. Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let’s go out to the field." When they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.
9. The Lord said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?"Cain said, "I don’t know. Am I my brother’s guardian?"
10. The Lord said, "What did you do? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the ground.
11. You are now cursed from the ground that opened its mouth to take your brother’s blood from your hand.
12. When you farm the fertile land, it will no longer grow anything for you, and you will become a roving nomad on the earth."