And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
And Jehovah said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
And Jehovah saith unto Cain, `Why hast thou displeasure? and why hath thy countenance fallen?
And Jehovah said to Cain, Why art thou angry, and why is thy countenance fallen?
Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Every kind of honour and happiness was bestowed upon you, and then was fulfilled that which is written, "My beloved ate and drank, and was enlarged and became fat, and kicked." [Deuteronomy 32:15] Hence flowed emulation and envy, strife and sedition, persecution and disorder, war and captivity. So the worthless rose up against the honoured, those of no reputation against such as were renowned, the foolish against the wise, the young against those advanced in years.
Clement of Rome· Clement's First Letter to the Corinthians, Chapters 3-4, 99patristic
(Verse 6.) And the Lord said to Cain: Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it. We are compelled to linger longer on each individual. For even now the meaning is very different in the Hebrew than in the translators of the Septuagint. For the Lord said to Cain: Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?
Jerome· Hebrew Questions on Genesis, 420patristic
And the Lord said unto Cain, why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
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Isaiah 1:18“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.
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I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
“Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the…
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
You have not bought Me sweet cane with your silver, nor satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.
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Matthew 20:15Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
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For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” so that you look upon your poor brother begrudgingly and give him nothing. He…
But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
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“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.
For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
Hide me from the scheming of the wicked, from the mob of workers of iniquity,
‘Son, you are always with me,’ the father said, ‘and all that is mine is yours.
Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
‘My people, what have I done to you? Testify against Me how I have wearied you!
You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to You no more’?
This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me, and followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?
(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
When Jesus realized that the Pharisees were aware He was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John
Then David became angry because the LORD had burst forth against Uzzah; so he named that place Perez-uzzah, as it is called to this day.
