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Genesis 4:2 KJV
Genesis · chapter 4 · verse 2
And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.Genesis 4:2 · King James Version
Genesis 4:2 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.
4And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- brotherʼâcha brother )H251 →
- keeperrâʻâhto tend a flockH7462 →
- tillerʻâbadto workH5647 →
- sheeptsôʼna collective name for a flockH6629 →
- bareyâladto bear youngH3205 →
- AbelHebelHebel, the son of AdamH1893 →
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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