Holy Scripture
Genesis 4:3
A church father on this verse
“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 u…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
3And it was so after some time that Cain brought of the fruits of the earth a sacrifice to the Lord.
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1And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and brought forth Cain and said, I have gained a man through God.
2And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
— Genesis 4:3 —
4And Abel also brought of the firstborn of his sheep and of his fatlings, and God looked upon Abel and his gifts,
5but Cain and his sacrifices he regarded not, and Cain was exceedingly sorrowful and his countenance fell.