The Holy Bible Septuagint LXX Unaltered English Word-for-Word from Interlinear Greek

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Genesis 4

4:1And Adam knew Eve his wife. And conceiving, she bore Cain, and said, I acquired a man through God.

4:2And she added to bear his brother, Abel. And Abel became a shepherd of sheep, but Cain was working the land.

4:3And it came to pass after some days, Cain brought from the fruits of the land a sacrifice to the lord.

4:4And Abel brought also himself from the first-born of his sheep, and from his fatlings. And God looked upon Abel and upon his gifts.

4:5But upon Cain and upon his sacrifices, he did not take heed. And Cain fretted exceedingly, and became downcast in the face.

4:6And the lord God said to Cain, Why are you dejected, and why is your face downcast?

4:7If not rightly you brought, but not rightly divided, you sinned? Be still, to you shall be his submission, and you will control him!

4:8And Cain said to Abel his brother, Let us go into the plain. And it came to pass in their being in the plain, Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and killed him.

4:9And the lord God said to Cain, Where is Abel your brother? And he said, I do not know, I am not the keeper of my brother.

4:10And the lord said, What did you do? The voice of the blood of your brother yells to me from the ground.

4:11And now, accursed are you from the earth which gaped wide her mouth to take the blood of your brother from your hand.

4:12When you work the ground, and it does not add to give her strength to you; then in moaning and trembling you will be upon the earth.

4:13And Cain said to the lord, My fault is too great to forgive me.

4:14If you cast me today from the face of the earth, and from your face, I will hide, and I will be moaning and trembling upon the earth; and it will be all the ones finding me will kill me.

4:15And the lord God said to him, Not so, all killing Cain will be disabled by punishing seven times. And the lord God put a sign to Cain for all finding him to not do away with him.

4:16And Cain went forth from the face of God, and he lived in the land of Nod, over against Eden.

4:17And Cain knew his wife. And she, conceiving, bore Enoch. And he was building a city, and he named the city after the name of his son Enoch.

4:18And to Enoch was born Irad; and Irad procreated Mehujael; and Mehujael procreated Methusael; and Methusaela procreated Lamech.

4:19And Lamech took to himself two wives; the name to the one was Adah, and the name to the second was Zillah.

4:20And Adah bore Jabel, this one was father of the ones living in tents, grazing cattle.

4:21And the name to his brother was Jubal, this one was the one introducing the psaltery and the harp.

4:22But Zillah also herself bore Tubal-cain, and he was a hammer-smith brazier of brass and of iron. And the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

4:23And Lamech said to his own wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, O wives of Lamech! Give ear to my words! for I killed a man for giving a wound to me, and a young man for giving a stripe to me.

4:24For punishment seven times is for Cain, but for Lamech, seventy times seven.

4:25And Adam knew Eve his wife. And conceiving, she bore a son, and named his name Seth, saying, For God raised up to me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain killed.

4:26And to Seth was born a son. And he named his name Enos; this one hoped to call upon the name of the lord God.