1. קין (qayin)—Cain, “spear-shaft,” and קנה (qanah)—“set up, establish, gain, buy,” contain the biliteral root …

If you do well. —This most difficult verse is capable of a satisfactory interpretation, provided that we refuse to admit into this…

If you do well. In these words God reproves Cain for having been unjustly angry, since the blame of the whole evil was his own. For foolis…

If you do well, shall you not be accepted ?
&c.] That is, either if you do your works well in general, do good works…

When Cain was born, Eve said, "I have gotten a man from the Lord." Perhaps she thought that this was the promised seed. If so, she was woefully dis…