but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell. Yahweh said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen? If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.” Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, […]
⛓ Read Genesis 4 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Cain's anger toward his brother culminating in murder is the archetype of the anger-to-murder continuum Jesus expounds.
Medium confidenceThe progression from frustrated desire to murder ('you kill, covet') echoes Cain, whose envy of his brother led to the first killing; James 3-4 elsewhere leans on the genealogy of sin from desire.
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