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Genesis 4:1-2
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Cain and Abel

4:1 Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten [1] a man with the help of the Lord.” 2 And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground.

Footnotes

[1] 4:1 Cain sounds like the Hebrew for gotten

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