8 Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.”(a) And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.(A)
9 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”

“I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s guardian?”

Footnotes:

a. Genesis 4:8: Sam, LXX, Syr, Vg; MT omits Let’s go out to the field

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