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Genesis 4:9

AbelKain
Skyld og samvittighetSannhet og ærlighetKonflikt og forsoning

7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it.”

8 Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.

And the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I do not know!” he answered. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”

10 “What have you done?” replied the LORD. “The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.

11 Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

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Sammenlign

ÅB
Da sa Herren til Kain: Hvor er Abel, din bror? Han svarte: Jeg vet ikke; skal jeg passe på min bror?
OTB
Da sa Herren til Kain: "Hvor er din bror Abel?" Han svarte: "Jeg vet ikke. Er jeg min brors vokter?"
B1930
Da sa Herren til Kain: Hvor er Abel, din bror? Han svarte: Jeg vet ikke; skal jeg passe på min bror?
BSB
And the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I do not know!” he answered. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
KJV
And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper?
WEB
The LORD said to Cain, “Where is Abel, your brother?” He said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”
ASV
And Jehovah said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: am I my brother`s keeper?
DARBY
And Jehovah said to Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: am I my brother's keeper?
BLB
And YHWH said to Cain, “Where [is] Abel your brother?” And He said, “I do not know. [Am] I my brother’s keeper?”

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