1: Adam slept with Eve his wife. She conceived and had Cain. She said, "I've gotten a man, with GOD's help!"
2: Then she had another baby, Abel. Abel was a herdsman and Cain a farmer.
3: Time passed. Cain brought an offering to GOD from the produce of his farm.
4: Abel also brought an offering, but from the firstborn animals of his herd, choice cuts of meat. GOD liked Abel and his offering,
5: but Cain and his offering didn't get his approval. Cain lost his temper and went into a sulk.
6: GOD spoke to Cain: "Why this tantrum? Why the sulking?
7: If you do well, won't you be accepted? And if you don't do well, sin is lying in wait for you, ready to pounce; it's out to get you, you've got to master it."
8: Cain had words with his brother. They were out in the field; Cain came at Abel his brother and killed him.
9: GOD said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said, "How should I know? Am I his babysitter?"
10: GOD said, "What have you done! The voice of your brother's blood is calling to me from the ground.
11: From now on you'll get nothing but curses from this ground; you'll be driven from this ground that has opened its arms to receive the blood of your murdered brother.
12: You'll farm this ground, but it will no longer give you its best. You'll be a homeless wanderer on Earth."
13: Cain said to GOD, "My punishment is too much. I can't take it!
14: You've thrown me off the land and I can never again face you. I'm a homeless wanderer on Earth and whoever finds me will kill me."
15: GOD told him, "No. Anyone who kills Cain will pay for it seven times over." GOD put a mark on Cain to protect him so that no one who met him would kill him.
16: Cain left the presence of GOD and lived in No-Man's-Land, east of Eden.
17: Cain slept with his wife. She conceived and had Enoch. He then built a city and named it after his son, Enoch.
18: Enoch had Irad, Irad had Mehujael, Mehujael had Methushael, Methushael had Lamech.
19: Lamech married two wives, Adah and Zillah.
20: Adah gave birth to Jabal, the ancestor of all who live in tents and herd cattle.
21: His brother's name was Jubal, the ancestor of all who play the lyre and flute.
22: Zillah gave birth to Tubal-Cain, who worked at the forge making bronze and iron tools. Tubal-Cain's sister was Naamah.
23: Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, listen to me; you wives of Lamech, hear me out: I killed a man for wounding me, a young man who attacked me.
24: If Cain is avenged seven times, for Lamech it's seventy-seven!
25: Adam slept with his wife again. She had a son whom she named Seth. She said, "God has given me another child in place of Abel whom Cain killed."
26: And then Seth had a son whom he named Enosh. That's when men and women began praying and worshiping in the name of GOD.