Bible reading and Torah study in Genesis

This is where the quality of offering matter.

Accordingly, Cain’s offering was from the inferior portions of the crop, while Abel’s only the finest of his flock. Thus, rejection and acceptance as the turn of events are the consequences.

V. 7 on sin. “… you can conquer it.” Contrary to misleading teaching or doctrine that sin cannot be overcome.

1 Now the man knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, and she said, “I have acquired a man with the Lord.”
2 And she continued to bear his brother Abel, and Abel was a shepherd of flocks, and Cain was a tiller of the soil.
3 Now it came to pass at the end of days, that Cain brought of the fruit of the soil an offering to the Lord.
4 And Abel he too brought of the firstborn of his flocks and of their fattest, and the Lord turned to Abel and to his offering.
5 But to Cain and to his offering He did not turn, and it annoyed Cain exceedingly, and his countenance fell.
6 And the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you annoyed, and why has your countenance fallen?
7 Is it not so that if you improve, it will be forgiven you? If you do not improve, however, at the entrance, sin is lying, and to you is its longing, but you can rule over it.”
8 And Cain spoke to 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.
9 And the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” And he said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”
10 And He said, “What have you done? Hark! Your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the earth.
11 And now, you are cursed even more than the ground, which opened its mouth to take your brother’s blood from your hand.
12 When you till the soil, it will not continue to give its strength to you; you shall be a wanderer and an exile in the land.”
13 And Cain said to the Lord, “Is my iniquity too great to bear?
14 Behold You have driven me today off the face of the earth, and I shall be hidden from before You, and I will be a wanderer and an exile in the land, and it will be that whoever finds me will kill me.”
15 And the Lord said to him, “Therefore, whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be wrought upon him sevenfold,” and the Lord placed a mark on Cain that no one who find him slay him.
16 And Cain went forth from before the Lord, and he dwelt in the land of the wanderers, to the east of Eden.
17 And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch, and he was building a city, and he called the city after the name of his son, Enoch.
18 And Irad was born to Enoch, and Irad begot Mehujael, and Mehijael begot Methushael, and Methushael begot Lemech.
19 And Lemech took himself two wives; one was named Adah, and the other was named Zillah.
20 Now Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have cattle.
21 And his brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all who grasp a lyre and a flute.
22 And Zillah she too bore Tubal-cain, who sharpened all tools that cut copper and iron, and Tubal-cain’s sister was Na’amah.
23 Now Lemech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, hearken to my voice; wives of Lemech, incline your ears to my words, for I have slain a man by wounding (him) and a child by bruising (him).
24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, then for Lemech it shall be seventy seven fold.”
25 And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son, and she named him Seth, for God has given me other seed, instead of Abel, for Cain slew him.
26 And to Seth also to him a son was born, and he named him Enosh; then it became common to call by the name of the Lord.

1 Now the serpent was cunning, more than all the beasts of the field that the Lord God had made, and it said to the woman, “Did God indeed say, ‘You shall not eat of any of the trees of the garden?’”
2 And the woman said to the serpent, “Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat.
3 But of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God said, “You shall not eat of it, and you shall not touch it, lest you die.’”
4 And the serpent said to the woman, “You will surely not die.
5 For God knows that on the day that you eat thereof, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like angels, knowing good and evil.”
6 And the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make one wise; so she took of its fruit, and she ate, and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.
7 And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves and made themselves girdles.
8 And they heard the voice of the Lord God going in the garden to the direction of the sun, and the man and his wife hid from before the Lord God in the midst of the trees of the garden.
9 And the Lord God called to man, and He said to him, “Where are you?”
10 And he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I am naked; so I hid.”
11 And He said, “Who told you that you are naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”
12 And the man said, “The woman whom You gave [to be] with me she gave me of the tree; so I ate.”
13 And the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent enticed me, and I ate.”
14 And the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed be you more than all the cattle and more than all the beasts of the field; you shall walk on your belly, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
15 And I shall place hatred between you and between the woman, and between your seed and between her seed. He will crush your head, and you will bite his heel.”
16 To the woman He said, “I shall surely increase your sorrow and your pregnancy; in pain you shall bear children. And to your husband will be your desire, and he will rule over you.”
17 And to man He said, “Because you listened to your wife, and you ate from the tree from which I commanded you saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed be the ground for your sake; with toil shall you eat of it all the days of your life.
18 And it will cause thorns and thistles to grow for you, and you shall eat the herbs of the field.
19 With the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, until you return to the ground, for you were taken therefrom, for dust you are, and to dust you will return.”
20 And the man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all life.
21 And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife shirts of skin, and He dressed them.
22 Now the Lord God said, “Behold man has become like one of us, having the ability of knowing good and evil, and now, lest he stretch forth his hand and take also from the Tree of Life and eat and live forever.”
23 And the Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden, to till the soil, whence he had been taken.
24 And He drove the man out, and He stationed from the east of the Garden of Eden the cherubim and the blade of the revolving sword, to guard the way to the Tree of Life.