"Let us go into the field"
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καὶ εἶπεν Κάιν πρὸς Ἄβελ τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ Διέλθωμεν εἰς τὸ πεδίον. καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ εἶναι αὐτοὺς ἐν τῷ πεδίῳ καὶ ἀνέστη Κάιν ἐπὶ Ἄβελ τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀπέκτεινεν αὐτόν.
Διέλθωμεν εἰς τὸ πεδίον, "Let us go across into the field," supplies Cain's actual words to Abel — a clause the Hebrew Masoretic Text famously lacks (it reads only "Cain said to Abel his brother" and jumps straight to the field, leaving a well-known textual gap). The LXX (with the Samaritan Pentateuch, Peshitta, and Vulgate) fills the silence with an invitation, so that what happens next reads as premeditated: Cain draws his brother out to an empty place before he ἀνέστη, "rose up," against him.
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