Genesis 4:11

Hebrew Bible

8 Cain spoke to his brother Abel.21 While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him. 9 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” And he replied, “I don’t know! Am I my brother’s guardian?” 10 But the Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground! 11 So now you are banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. 12 When you try to cultivate the ground it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a homeless wanderer on the earth.”

Deuteronomy 27:24

Hebrew Bible

23 ‘Cursed is the one who goes to bed with his mother-in-law.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’ 24 ‘Cursed is the one who kills his neighbor in private.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’ 25 ‘Cursed is the one who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

 Notes and References

"... These insertions of the Interpolator definitely changed the overall thrust of the original book of Jubilees. Now the book seemed to be saying that the deeds of Israel’s ancestors did indeed match some of the laws given to Moses on Mount Sinai, but not because God had decided to institutionalize in the Torah certain practices that had been created by those ancestors on their own initiative. Rather, now it seemed that those ancestors had simply been manipulated into obeying laws that were written long before in the Heavenly Tablets. Moreover, in order to drive this point home, the Interpolator sought to expand on the original author’s list of precedents for the laws of festivals and other matters so as to include all sorts of other laws from the Pentateuch—Cain’s punishment after the murder of Abel reflected a divine statute that was also written down in the law of Deuteronomy 27:24 ..."

Kugel, James L. A Walk through Jubilees: Studies in the Book of Jubilees and the World of Its Creation (p. 13) Brill, 2012

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