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Genesis 4:1 KJV
Genesis · chapter 4 · verse 1
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.Genesis 4:1 · King James Version
Genesis 4:1 in context
1And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
2And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
3And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- conceivedhârâhto be pregnant, conceiveH2029 →
- gottenqânâhto erectH7069 →
- AdamʼâdâmruddyH120 →
- knewyâdaʻto knowH3045 →
- knewʼêthproperly, selfH853 →
- wifeʼishshâha womanH802 →
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Adam and Eve had many sons and daughters, Gen 5:4. But Cain and Abel seem to have been the two eldest. Some think they were twins, and, as Esau and Jacob, the elder hated and the younger loved. Though God had cast our first parents out of paradise, he did not write them childless;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-2