ABEL

Passages on this topic · 22

• Genesis 4:1

  The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.”

• Genesis 4:2

  Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

• Genesis 4:3

  As time passed, Cain brought an offering to Yahweh from the fruit of the ground.

• Genesis 4:4

  Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering,

• Genesis 4:5

  but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.

• Genesis 4:6

  Yahweh said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?

• Genesis 4:7

  If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”

• Genesis 4:8

  Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.

• Genesis 4:9

  Yahweh said to Cain, “Where is Abel, your brother?” He said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”

• Genesis 4:10

  Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.

• Genesis 4:11

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

• Genesis 4:12

  From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.”

• Genesis 4:13

  Cain said to Yahweh, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.

• Genesis 4:14

  Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me.”

• Genesis 4:15

  Yahweh said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, so that anyone finding him would not strike him.

• Genesis 4:25

  Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, saying, “for God has given me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him.”

• 1 Samuel 6:18

  and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fortified cities and of country villages, even to the great stone, on which they set down Yahweh’s ark. That stone remains to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh.

• Matthew 23:35

  that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.

• Luke 11:51

  from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.’ Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.

• Hebrews 11:4

  By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

• Hebrews 12:24

  to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

• 1 John 3:12

  unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.