Douay Rheims Original ↷
Genesis 4 📜 📕 ↷
Cain and Abel
1 AND Adam knew Eve his wife, who conceived and brought forth Cain, saying: I have gotten a man through God.📜💬📚
2 And again she brought forth his brother Abel. And Abel was a shepherd, & Cain a husbandman.📜💬📚
3 And it befell after many days that Cain offered of the fruits of the earth gifts to our Lord.📜💬📚
4 Abel also offered of the first-begotten of his flock, and of their fat: and our Lord had respect of Abel, & to his gifts.📜💬📚
5 But to Cain, and to his gifts he had not respect: And Cain was exceeding angry, and his countenance abated.📜💬📚
6 And our Lord said to him: Why art thou angry? and why is thy countenance fallen?📜💬📚
7 If thou do well, shall thou not receive again: but if thou dost ill, shall not thy sin forthwith be present at the door? But the lust thereof shall be under thee, and thou shalt have dominion over it.📜💬📚
8 And Cain said to Abel his brother: Let us go forth abroad. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and slew him.📜💬📚
9 And our Lord said to Cain: Where is Abel thy brother? Who answered: I know not, am I my brother's keeper?📜💬📚
10 And he said to him: what hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me out of the earth.📜💬📚
11 Now therefore cursed shalt thou be upon the earth, which hath opened her mouth, & received the blood of thy brother at thy hand.📜💬📚
12 When thou shalt till it, it shall not yield to thee her fruit: a rogue and vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth.📜💬📚
13 And Cain said to our Lord: Mine iniquity is greater than that I may deserve pardon.📜💬📚
14 Lo thou dost cast me out this day from the face of the earth, and from thy face shall I be hid, and I shall be a vagabond and fugitive on the earth: every one therefore that findeth me shall kill me.📜💬📚
15 And our Lord said to him: No, it shall not so be: but whosoever shall kill Cain, shall be punished seven-fold. And our Lord put a mark on Cain, that whosoever found him should not kill him.📜💬📚
16 And Cain went forth from the face of our Lord, and dwelt as a fugitive on the earth at the east side of Eden.📜💬📚
Descendants of Cain
17 And Cain knew his wife, who conceived and brought forth Enoch: And he built a city, and called the name thereof by the name of his son, Enoch.📜💬📚
18 Moreover Enoch begat Irad, and Irad begat Maviael, and Maviael begat Mathusael, and Mathusael begat Lamech.📜💬📚
19 Who took two wives, the name of the one was Ada, and the name of the other Sella.📜💬📚
20 And Ada brought forth Jabel, who was the father of them that dwell in tents, and of herdsmen.📜💬📚
21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of them that sing on harp & organs.📜💬📚
22 Sella also brought forth Tubalcain, who was a hammerer and worker in all work of brass and iron. And the sister of Tubalcain was Noema.📜💬📚
23 And Lamech said to his wives Ada and Sella: Hear my voice ye wives of Lamech, harken to my talk: for I have slain a man to the wounding of my self, and a stripling to mine own dry blow bruising.📜💬📚
24 Seven-fold vengeance shall be taken of Cain: but of Lamech seventy times seven-fold.📜💬📚
Seth and Enosh
25 Adam also knew his wife again: and she brought forth a son, & called his name Seth, saying: God hath given me other seed for Abel, whom Cain slew.📜💬📚
26 But to Seth also was born a son, whom he called Enos, this man began to invocate the name of our Lord.📜💬📚
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