Jealousy overcomes Cain. He makes trouble in the family. How the first murder was planned.  
 
1 Then Adam said to Eve, "Behold the children are grown up; we must think of finding wives for them."
 
2 Then Eve answered, "How can we do it?"
 
3 Then Adam said to her, "We will join Abel's sister in marriage to Cain, and Cain's sister to Abel.
 
4 The said Eve to Adam, "I do not like Cain because he is hard-hearted; but let them stay with us until we offer up to the Lord in their behalf."
 
5 And Adam said no more.
 
6 Meanwhile Satan came to Cain in the figure of a man of the field, and said to him, "Behold Adam and Eve have taken counsel together about the marriage of you two; and they have agreed to marry Abel's sister to you, and your sister to him.
 
7 But if it was not that I love you, I would not have told you this thing. Yet if you will take my advice, and obey me, I will bring to you on your wedding day beautiful robes, gold and silver in plenty, and my relations will attend you."
 
8 Then Cain said with joy, "Where are your relations?"
 
9 And Satan answered, "My relations are in a garden in the north, where I once meant to bring your father Adam; but he would not accept my offer.
 
10 But you, if you will receive my words and if you will come to me after your wedding, you shall rest from the misery in which you are; and you shall rest and be better off than your father Adam."
 
11 At these words of Satan Cain opened his ears, and leaned towards his speech.
 
12 And he did not remain in the field, but he went to Eve, his mother, and beat her, and cursed her, and said to her, "Why are you planning to take my sister to wed her to my brother? Am I dead?"
 
13 His mother, however, quieted him, and sent him to the field where he had been.
 
14 Then when Adam came, she told him of what Cain had done.
 
15 But Adam grieved and held his peace, and said not a word.
 
16 Then on the next morning Adam said to Cain his son, "Take of your sheep, young and good, and offer them up to your God; and I will speak to your brother, to make to his God an offering of corn."
 
17 They both obeyed their father Adam, and they took their offerings, and offered them up on the mountain by the altar.
 
18 But Cain behaved haughtily towards his brother, and shoved him from the altar, and would not let him offer up his gift on the altar; but he offered his own on it, with a proud heart, full of guile, and fraud.
 
19 But as for Abel, he set up stones that were near at hand, and on that, he offered up his gift with a heart humble and free from guile.
 
20 Cain was then standing by the altar on which he had offered up his gift; and he cried to God to accept his offering; but God did not accept it from him; neither did a divine fire come down to consume his offering.
 
21 But he remained standing over against the altar, out of humor and meanness, looking towards his brother Abel, to see if God would ............