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Gen 4:1–26

Team cross-references from Gen 4:1–26. Edge width = weight; colour = relation.

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Genesis

Gen 3:9 ← Gen 4:9 (verbal)
Gen 3:17 ← Gen 4:11 (verbal)
Gen 3:24 ← Gen 4:16 (verbal)
Gen 5:3 ← Gen 4:25 (verbal)
Gen 5:18–24 ← Gen 4:17 (verbal)
Gen 5:21–31 ← Gen 4:18 (verbal)
Gen 9:5–6 ← Gen 4:10 (verbal)
Gen 12:8 ← Gen 4:26 (verbal)

Exodus

Exod 6:3 ← Gen 4:26 (thematic)

Leviticus

Lev 3:16 ← Gen 4:4 (verbal)

Numbers

Num 24:21–22 ← Gen 4:17 (verbal)
Num 35:33 ← Gen 4:10 (thematic)

Matthew

Matt 18:22 ← Gen 4:24 (allusion)
Matt 23:35 ← Gen 4:8–10 (allusion)

Hebrews

Heb 11:4 ← Gen 4:4 (allusion)
Heb 12:24 ← Gen 4:10 (allusion)

1 John

1 John 3:12 ← Gen 4:8 (allusion)

Jude

Jude 1:11 ← Gen 4:3–8 (allusion)

1 John 3:12

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Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did Cain slay him? Because his own deeds were evil, while those of his brother were righteous.

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Gen 4:8 · allusion · weight 0.7 ✓ Approved

Says 1 John 3:12 says, “Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother” (BSB), and gives the reason: “Because his own deeds were evil, while those of his brother were righteous” (1 John 3:12, BSB). The Greek has ἔσφαξεν where Swete 4:8 has ἀπέκτεινεν. There is no apparatus unit. See the Greek note. Implies 1 John reads Cain as a real person who murdered his brother, and gives the reason in terms of deeds. That is what the letter says of Genesis; it is not used here to fix a lean among the readings of 4:3–5, and no application is drawn.