Genesis 4:9

And the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I do not know!” he answered. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”

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2 songs meet this passage

  • “I go to my brother and I say, Brother, help me, please”

    A Change Is Gonna Come · Sam Cooke

    strains against Genesis 4:9

    The plea for a brother's help, met instead with rejection, echoes the ancient failure of kinship and care that Scripture names as a wound from the beginning.

  • “Mama, just killed a man”

    Bohemian Rhapsody · Queen

    resonates with Genesis 4:9-10

    Like Cain, the narrator carries the weight of a killing that can't be undone, guilt crying out even as he tries to carry on.

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