Holy Scripture
Genesis 4:5
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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 u…”
Source: Septuagint
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5but Cain and his sacrifices he regarded not, and Cain was exceedingly sorrowful and his countenance fell.
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3And it was so after some time that Cain brought of the fruits of the earth a sacrifice to the Lord.
4And Abel also brought of the firstborn of his sheep and of his fatlings, and God looked upon Abel and his gifts,
— Genesis 4:5 —
6And the Lord God said to Cain, Why art thou become very sorrowful and why is thy countenance fallen?
7Hast thou not sinned if thou hast brought it rightly, but not rightly divided it? be still, to thee shall be his submission, and thou shalt rule over him.