See Genesis iv

AFTER Adam and Eve had been driven from the Garden of Eden, their children Cain and Abel were born. The record of their lives is brief. We are told that Cain became a tiller of the soil and Abel, keeper of sheep, and then follows the account of the awful tragedy with which their names will be forever linked-one as the type of gentleness and obedience, the other as the embodiment of envy, rebellion and revenge. We read thus: “And in process-of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord: And 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. But unto Cain, and to his offering, he had not respect: and Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou ,wroth And why is thy countenance fallen If thou do well, shalt thou not be accepted and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door: And unto I thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. And Cain talked with Abel his brother; and it came to pass when they were in the field,that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.” And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother And he said, I know not:

Am I my brother's keeper And he said, What hast thou done The voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me from the ground. And now thou art cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength: A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be, in the earth. And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, thou hast driven me on this day from the face of the earth, and from thy face shall I be hid, and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth: and it shall come to pass that everyone that findeth me shall slay me. And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him seven fold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him, should kill him.