*Gen 4:1a Or the man; also in 4:25.

*Gen 4:1b Or I have acquired. Cain sounds like a Hebrew term that can mean “produce” or “acquire.”

*Gen 4:8 As in Samaritan Pentateuch, Greek and Syriac versions, and Latin Vulgate; Masoretic Text lacks “Let’s go out into the fields.”

*Gen 4:13 Or My sin.

*Gen 4:16 Nod means “wandering.”

*Gen 4:18 Or the ancestor of, and so throughout the verse.

*Gen 4:25 Seth probably means “granted”; the name may also mean “appointed.”