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Genesis 4:9

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9 And Jehovah saith unto Cain, `Where [is] Abel thy brother?' and he saith, `I have not known; my brother's keeper -- I?'

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Arcana Coelestia #346

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346. Verse 3. And at the end of days it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering to Jehovah. By the “end of days” is meant in process of time; by the “fruit of the ground” the works of faith without charity; and by “an offering to Jehovah” worship thence derived.

  
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