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.
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Gill's Exposition
And the Lord said unto Cain, where is Abel thy brother?.... Perhaps this was said to him the next time he came to offer, he not being with him: this question is put, not as being ignorant where he…
Adam Clarke
Cain talked with Abel his brother - ויאמר קין vaiyomer Kayin, and Cain said, etc.; not talked, for this construction the word cannot bear without great violence to analogy and grammatical accuracy.…
Matthew Henry
We have here the progress of Cain's anger, and the issue of it in Abel's murder, which may be considered two ways: -
I. As Cain's sin; and a scarlet, crimson, sin it was, a sin of the first…
Cambridge Bible
told Heb. said unto, which is the only possible meaning of the original. The rendering "told" implies that Cain repeated to Abel, his brother, the words spoken to him by Jehovah. But this is not the…
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