 | 1854 - 434 pages
...will sooner or later come most surely to pass. VEB. 2. — " And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground." There is no proof that the brothers were twins, though some have thought so. The narrative seems to... | |
 | Thomas Vincent - Catechisms - 1854 - 382 pages
...God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it." Gen. iv. 2. " And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground." 1 Cor. vii. 20, 24. "Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called. Brethren, let every... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1854 - 398 pages
...This faulty tone substitutes double for single inflections. The true reading would be marked thus; ;'Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. The effect of the erroneous inflection, is peculiarly unhappy ; as it forms a tone properly associated... | |
 | Susanna Corder - Bible - 1855 - 236 pages
...Almighty communicated to both of them some knowledge of Himself, and of that which He required from them. "Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground: " and it came to pass, in process of time, that they each brought an offering unto the Lord. " And 2 the Lord had respect... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - Commerce - 1855 - 806 pages
...bread." • Diversity of employment was manifested so soon as the two first born of Eve began to toil. " Abel was a keeper of sheep ; but Cain was a tiller of the ground ;" and with them, probably, commenced the interchange of the fruits of labor. But these primitive pursuits... | |
 | Commerce - 1855 - 784 pages
...bread." Diversity of employment was manifested so soon as the two first born of Eve began to toil. " Abel was a keeper of sheep ; but Cain was a tiller of the ground ;" and with them, probably, commenced the interchange of the fruits of labor. But these primitive pursuits... | |
 | Crafts & Hobbies - 2004 - 196 pages
...and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. And in the process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto... | |
 | H. Hines - Religion - 2004 - 82 pages
...and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the... | |
 | James Hastings - Reference - 2004 - 344 pages
...simple and natural meaning and occasion of the feasts is to be found in the statement of Gn 4sb'<* 'And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. And in the process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto... | |
 | Joanne Holstein, Kathy McFarland - Religion - 2004 - 390 pages
...and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the... | |
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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. 
