Cain's offering from the fruits
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καὶ ἐγένετο μεθ᾽ ἡμέρας ἤνεγκεν Κάιν ἀπὸ τῶν καρπῶν τῆς γῆς θυσίαν τῷ κυρίῳ·
θυσία, "sacrifice, offering," is the general cultic word (a New Testament word too, e.g. Heb 10:1 of the OT sacrifices, Rom 12:1 of the believer's own body); Cain brings ἀπὸ τῶν καρπῶν τῆς γῆς, "from the fruits of the ground" — a plain, unremarkable produce-offering, in itself no less proper than Abel's. The narrative withholds any stated reason for what follows; the text so far gives none.
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