{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "genesis-woh", "chapter": 4 }, "data": { "n": 4, "bookSlug": "genesis-woh", "bookCode": "GEN-WOH", "refId": "", "title": "Genesis 4 — Cain and Hevel", "translation": {"track":"translation","version":"1.1.0","sourceText":"Tanach with Ta'amei Hamikra (Westminster Leningrad)","sourceLicense":"Public Domain","sourceUrl":"http://www.tanach.us/Tanach.xml","sourceAccessedVia":"sefaria.org/api/v3/texts/Genesis.4","glossaryVersion":"2.0.0","modelDrafts":["claude-opus-4-7"],"reviewer":"zarazinsfuss","reviewedAt":"2026-05-21T12:00:00+00:00","status":"reviewer-approved","updated":"2026-06-07T00:00:00+00:00","i18nFanout":{"languages":["en","de","es","fr","ja","ko","ru","zh","zh-Hant","he"],"firstFanout":"2026-06-07","method":"parallel-agent-fanout-from-en"},"reviewerReport":{"reviewer":"claude-opus-4-8 acting as woh-reviewer","reviewedAt":"2026-07-18T00:00:00+00:00","scope":"Genesis 4 (Cain and Abel, Cainite genealogy, J): all 25 noted verses reviewed against source-he-4.json.","reviewNote":"Verified: qaniti ish et-YHWH crux (v1, strong appositional reading with softer alternatives surfaced), Hevel/hevel foreshadowing, chatat(f)/rovetz(m) personification mismatch (v7), teshuqah/mashal verbatim parallel to 3:16 (v7), demei/tzo'aqim double-plural 'bloods cry' (v10), avon/nasa triple ambiguity (v13), ot 'for' not 'on' Cain (v15), Nod=nad wordplay, huchal hophal (v26). The 4:23 'first poem in the Hebrew Bible' is a defensible commonplace (2:23 is arguably the earlier poetic fragment) — acceptable as commentary. Lens-leakage: none.","citations":["BDB s.v. qanah, chatat, avon, nasa; Alter, The Five Books of Moses; Sarna JPS Genesis"],"verdicts":[{"refId":"GEN-WOH-4:1","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-4:2","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. 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See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-4:5","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-4:6","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. 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See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-4:11","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-4:12","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. 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See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-4:17","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-4:18","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-4:19","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-4:20","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. 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See chapter-level reviewNote."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-4:26","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Note reviewed; Hebrew re-parsed against the independent source; philology and any comparative/source-critical claims verified as defensible scholarship, lens material (where present) confined to the apparatus and explicitly flagged. See chapter-level reviewNote."}],"glossaryReview":[],"lens-leakage-flags":[]}}, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "GEN-WOH-4:1", "text": "The human knew his woman Chavvah, and she conceived and bore Cain. She said, \"I have made a man — YHWH himself!\"" },{ "n": 2, "refId": "GEN-WOH-4:2", "text": "She bore again — his brother Hevel. Hevel became a shepherd of flock, and Cain became a worker of the ground." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "GEN-WOH-4:3", "text": "After some time, Cain brought from the fruit of the ground an offering to YHWH." },{ "n": 4, "refId": "GEN-WOH-4:4", "text": "And Hevel also brought — from the firstborn of his flock, and from their fat portions. YHWH looked favorably on Hevel and on his offering;" },{ "n": 5, "refId": "GEN-WOH-4:5", "text": "but on Cain and on his offering he did not look favorably. Cain burned greatly, and his face fell." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "GEN-WOH-4:6", "text": "YHWH said to Cain, \"Why have you burned, and why has your face fallen?" },{ "n": 7, "refId": "GEN-WOH-4:7", "text": "Is it not so: if you do well, lifting; and if you do not do well, sin couches at the door — and its longing is for you, but you shall rule over it.\"" },{ "n": 8, "refId": "GEN-WOH-4:8", "text": "Cain spoke to his brother Hevel. And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Hevel and killed him." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "GEN-WOH-4:9", "text": "YHWH said to Cain, \"Where is Hevel your brother?\" And he said, \"I do not know — am I my brother's keeper?\"" },{ "n": 10, "refId": "GEN-WOH-4:10", "text": "He said, \"What have you done? The voice of your brother's bloods cries out to me from the ground.\"" },{ "n": 11, "refId": "GEN-WOH-4:11", "text": "And now, cursed are you, from the ground which opened its mouth to take your brother's bloods from your hand." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "GEN-WOH-4:12", "text": "When you work the ground, it shall no longer give its strength to you; a wanderer and a fugitive you shall be on the land." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "GEN-WOH-4:13", "text": "Cain said to YHWH, \"My iniquity is too great to bear.\"" },{ "n": 14, "refId": "GEN-WOH-4:14", "text": "Behold, you have driven me out today from the face of the ground, and from your face I shall be hidden; I shall be a wanderer and a fugitive on the land, and anyone who finds me will kill me." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "GEN-WOH-4:15", "text": "YHWH said to him, \"Therefore — whoever kills Cain, he will be avenged sevenfold.\" And YHWH placed for Cain a sign, so that no one who found him would strike him." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "GEN-WOH-4:16", "text": "Cain went out from the presence of YHWH, and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "GEN-WOH-4:17", "text": "Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Hanokh. And he was building a city, and he called the name of the city after the name of his son — Hanokh." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "GEN-WOH-4:18", "text": "To Hanokh was born Irad; and Irad fathered Mehuyael; and Mehuyael fathered Methushael; and Methushael fathered Lamech." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "GEN-WOH-4:19", "text": "Lamech took for himself two wives: the name of the first was Adah, and the name of the second Tzillah." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "GEN-WOH-4:20", "text": "Adah bore Yaval; he was the ancestor of those who dwell in tents and have livestock." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "GEN-WOH-4:21", "text": "And his brother's name was Yuval; he was the ancestor of all who take up the lyre and the pipe." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "GEN-WOH-4:22", "text": "And Tzillah also bore — Tuval-Cain, forger of every cutting-tool of bronze and iron. And Tuval-Cain's sister was Na'amah." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "GEN-WOH-4:23", "text": "Lamech said to his wives, \"Adah and Tzillah, hear my voice — wives of Lamech, listen to my speech: for a man I have killed for my wounding, and a child for my bruising." },{ "n": 24, "refId": "GEN-WOH-4:24", "text": "If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-and-seven.\"" },{ "n": 25, "refId": "GEN-WOH-4:25", "text": "Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son. She called his name Shet — \"for the Elohim has appointed for me another seed in place of Hevel, since Cain killed him.\"" },{ "n": 26, "refId": "GEN-WOH-4:26", "text": "And to Shet also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. Then it began to be called on the name of YHWH." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/genesis-woh/chapters/4", "book": "/v1/library/books/genesis-woh/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/genesis-woh/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }