Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.”[a] And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 4:8 Sam, LXX, Syr, Vg; MT omits “Let’s go out to the field.”

By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was approved as a righteous man, because God approved his gifts, and even though he is dead, he still speaks through his faith.(A)

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12 unlike Cain,(A) who was of the evil one(B) and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.

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24 In her was found the blood of prophets and saints,(A)
and of all those slaughtered on the earth.(B)

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