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Genesis 4:5
Genesis 4:5 is verse 5 of Genesis chapter 4, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
but He had no regard for Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his countenance fell.
King James Version
But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
World English Bible
but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.
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Genesis 4:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible
3 So in the course of time, Cain brought some of the fruit of the soil as an offering to the LORD,
4 while Abel brought the best portions of the firstborn of his flock. And the LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering,
5 but He had no regard for Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his countenance fell.
6 “Why are you angry,” said the LORD to Cain, “and why has your countenance fallen?
7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Numbers 16:15Then Moses became very angry and said to the LORD, “Do not regard their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them or mistreated a single one of them.”
Hebrews 11:4By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous when God gave approval to his gifts. And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead.
Genesis 31:2And Jacob saw from the countenance of Laban that his attitude toward him had changed.
Genesis 31:5and he told them, “I can see from your father’s countenance that his attitude toward me has changed; but the God of my father has been with me.
Job 5:2For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
Psalms 20:3May He remember all your gifts and look favorably on your burnt offerings. Selah
Isaiah 3:10Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.
Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
Matthew 20:15Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
Luke 15:28The older son became angry and refused to go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him.
Luke 15:29But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.
Luke 15:30But when this son of yours returns from squandering your wealth with prostitutes, you kill the fattened calf for him!’
Acts 13:45But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying.