No regard for Cain; his face fell
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ἐπὶ δὲ Κάιν καὶ ἐπὶ ταῖς θυσίαις αὐτοῦ οὐ προσέσχεν. καὶ ἐλύπησεν τὸν Κάιν λίαν καὶ συνέπεσεν τῷ προσώπῳ.
The refusal is stated with the same flat lack of explanation as the acceptance: οὐ προσέσχεν, "he did not attend to, pay heed to." συνέπεσεν τῷ προσώπῳ, literally "fell together/collapsed with respect to the face," is the LXX's rendering of a Hebrew idiom for a countenance that falls in anger or dejection — the same idiom picked up in God's question at v.6.
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