Drafted by Grok 4.7 on 8 October 2026. First draft. Not independently reviewed. Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
1The human knew his wife Eve. She conceived and bore Cain, and she said, “I have acquired a man with Yahweh.”
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Qaniti is “I have acquired,” and it sits next to the name Cain, Qayin. Et Yahweh can be “with Yahweh” or can mark Yahweh as the one acquired, which the sentence does not support. “With Yahweh” is printed. “From Yahweh” is the live alternative.
2She gave birth again, to his brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain was a worker of the ground.
3After some time, Cain brought some of the fruit of the ground as a gift to Yahweh.
4Abel brought, he too, some of the firstborn of his flock and some of their fat. Yahweh looked to Abel and to his gift,
5but to Cain and to his gift he did not look. Cain was very hot with anger, and his face fell.
6Yahweh said to Cain, “Why are you hot with anger, and why has your face fallen?
7If you do well, is there not a lifting? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are the one to rule over it.”
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Se’et is “a lifting,” of the face or of the gift. The word is not more specific than that. The desire in the next sentence is the same word used of the woman in the previous chapter.
8Cain said to his brother Abel. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.
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Leningrad records no words after “said.” The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin witnesses include a line about going out to the field. Those words are not in this Hebrew copy. No Dead Sea fragment of this verse was read for this draft, so the missing speech is not filled in.
9Yahweh said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” He said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”
10He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground.
11Now you are cursed from the ground, which opened its mouth to take your brother’s blood from your hand.
12When you work the ground, it will no longer give you its strength. A wanderer and a fugitive you will be on the earth.”
13Cain said to Yahweh, “My punishment is greater than I can carry.
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Avon is both the crime and the punishment that follows it. “Punishment” is printed. “Guilt” is the live alternative.
14Look, you have driven me out today from the face of the ground, and from your face I will be hidden. I will be a wanderer and a fugitive on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
15Yahweh said to him, “Therefore, whoever kills Cain, seven times it will be avenged.” And Yahweh put a mark on Cain, so that anyone who found him would not strike him.
16Cain went out from the face of Yahweh and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
17Cain knew his wife. She conceived and bore Enoch. He was building a city, and he named the city after his son, Enoch.
18To Enoch was born Irad. Irad fathered Mehujael, Mehujael fathered Methushael, and Methushael fathered Lamech.
19Lamech took two wives for himself. The name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other was Zillah.
20Adah bore Jabal. He was the father of those who live in tents and with livestock.
21His brother’s name was Jubal. He was the father of all who handle the lyre and the pipe.
22Zillah, she too, bore Tubal-cain, a hammerer of every cutting tool of bronze and iron. The sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
23Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. Wives of Lamech, give ear to what I say. I have killed a man for my wound, a boy for my bruise.
24If Cain is avenged seven times, then Lamech seventy-seven times.”
25Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and named him Seth, “for God has set another offspring for me in place of Abel, because Cain killed him.”
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From here the copy uses Adam as the man’s name, not only “the human.” Seth, Shet, sits next to shat, “he has set.”
26To Seth, he too, a son was born, and he named him Enosh. Then people began to call on the name of Yahweh.
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Huhal is printed as “began,” the passive of the verb “to begin.” A different verb with the same letters can mean “was profaned.” That reading is not printed.