LOOK now at Cain and Abel. Both have grown up. Cain has become a farmer. He is busy growing grains and fruits and vegetables.
Abel raises sheep. He likes to look after the little lambs. They grow up to be big sheep, and soon Abel has a whole flock of sheep to look after.
One day Cain and Abel bring a gift to God. Cain brings food that he has grown. And Abel brings the best sheep he has. Jehovah likes Abel and his gift. But he doesn’t like Cain and his gift. Do you know why?
It’s not just that Abel’s gift is better than Cain’s. It’s because Abel is good. He loves Jehovah and his brother. But Cain is bad; he doesn’t love his brother.
So God tells Cain that he must change. But Cain doesn’t listen. He is very angry because God has chosen Abel. Cain says to Abel, ‘Let’s go out into the field.’ There, when they are alone, Cain hits his brother. He hits him so hard that he kills him. Don’t you think it’s terrible that Cain did that?
Even though Abel died, God still remembers him. Abel was good, and Jehovah never forgets people like that. So one day Jehovah God will bring Abel back to life. At that time Abel will never have to die. He will be able to live forever here on Earth. Wouldn’t it be nice to meet people like him?
But God does not like people like Cain. So after Cain killed his brother, God punished him by sending him away from the rest of his family. When Cain left to live somewhere else on Earth, he took one of his sisters with him, and she became his wife.
Over time, Cain and his wife began to have children. Other sons and daughters of Adam and Eve married and also had children. Soon there were many people on Earth. Let’s get to know some of them .