9Yahweh said to Cain, |Where is Abel, your brother?| He said, |I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper?|


In Context

6 Yahweh said to Cain, |Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?

7 If you do well, will it not 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.|

8 Cain said to Abel, his brother, |Let's go into the field.| It happened when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.

9 Yahweh said to Cain, |Where is Abel, your brother?| He said, |I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper?|

10 Yahweh said, |What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.

11 Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

Genesis 4:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:9And the LORD said unto Cain, Where [is] Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: [Am] I my brother’s keeper?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:9Then the Lord said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" "I don't know," he replied. "Am I my brother's keeper?"

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:9And the Lord said to Cain: Where is thy brother Abel? And he answered, I know not: am I my brother's keeper?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:9And Jehovah said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: am I my brother's keeper?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:9And Jehovah said to Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: am I my brother's keeper?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:9And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: am I my brother's keeper?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:9And the LORD said to Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:9And Jehovah saith unto Cain, 'Where is Abel thy brother?' and he saith, 'I have not known; my brother's keeper — I?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:9And the LORD said to Cain, Where is Abel your brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?