Genesis 4:8-10

Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him. And the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I do not know!” he answered. “Am I my brother’s keeper?” “What have you done?” replied the LORD. “The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.

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8 songs meet this passage

  • “We keep them 9 millis on my block, nigga”

    Hot Boy · Bobby Shmurda

    strains against Genesis 4:8-10

    Casual celebration of shooting people stands against Scripture's horror at bloodshed, where a brother's blood cries out from the ground.

  • “I gave a nigga a diamond, I had to cap a nigga”

    Ric Flair Drip · Offset & Metro Boomin

    strains against Genesis 4:8-10

    Violence spoken of so casually recalls Cain's bloodshed, which Scripture treats with horror rather than bravado.

  • This Is America · Childish Gambino

    strains against Genesis 4:8-10

    The abrupt violence recalls Cain's bloodshed; the song's jarring shift mirrors how quickly life is taken and how normalized it has become.

  • “I ain't wanna take his life but nigga, fuck it”

    Gummo · 6ix9ine

    strains against Genesis 4:8-10

    Casual willingness to kill echoes Cain's violence; the shrug here stands far from any reckoning with the weight of taking a life.

  • “I'ma body a nigga”

    Suge · DaBaby

    strains against Genesis 4:8-10

    Casual threats of killing echo Cain's violence; Scripture treats the taking of life as a grave matter, not a boast.

  • “He was wishin' for a burner”

    Tiimmy Turner · Desiigner

    strains against Genesis 4:8

    The wish for a weapon to kill echoes Cain's violence, which Scripture treats as the opposite of the life God calls us toward.

  • “I'm what Cain was to Abel”

    Blaze of Glory · Jon Bon Jovi

    resonates with Genesis 4:8-9

    He casts himself explicitly as a murderer in the line of Cain, owning violence as his identity rather than resisting it.

  • “murdered in cold blood dramatized”

    Ain't Hard 2 Find (feat. E-40, Richie Rich, B-Legit & C-Bo) · 2Pac

    strains against Genesis 4:10

    Violence is treated as legend-building here, while Scripture treats bloodshed as a cry that reaches God, never a boast.

Elsewhere in Genesis 4