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Bible du Rabbinat 1899 [fr] · Licence: Public Domain · Source
Genèse 4:2 dans toutes les traductions
English · Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009
She gave birth again, to his brother Hevel. Hevel became a shepherd, but Kayin was a worker of the soil.
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English · The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein
And she bore again [(a twin sister)] with his brother, with [(i.e., another twin sister, with)] Abel. And Abel was a shepherd, and Cain was a tiller of the soil.
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עברית · Miqra according to the Masorah
וַתֹּ֣סֶף לָלֶ֔דֶת אֶת־אָחִ֖יו אֶת־הָ֑בֶל וַֽיְהִי־הֶ֙בֶל֙ רֹ֣עֵה צֹ֔אן וְקַ֕יִן הָיָ֖ה עֹבֵ֥ד אֲדָמָֽה׃
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English · The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation (JPS 1917)
And again she bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
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עברית · Tanach with Ta'amei Hamikra
וַתֹּ֣סֶף לָלֶ֔דֶת אֶת־אָחִ֖יו אֶת־הָ֑בֶל וַֽיְהִי־הֶ֙בֶל֙ רֹ֣עֵה צֹ֔אן וְקַ֕יִן הָיָ֖ה עֹבֵ֥ד אֲדָמָֽה׃
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Français · Bible du Rabbinat 1899 [fr]
Elle enfanta ensuite son frère, Abel. Abel devint pasteur de menu bétail, et Caïn cultiva la terre.
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Deutsch · Die fünf Bücher Moses, trans. Dr. J. Wohlgemuth, Rödelheim 1899 [de]
Und dann gebar sie seinen Bruder, den Abel (Hebel). Abel wurde ein Schafhirte und Kain ein Ackerbauer.
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English · Sefaria Community Translation
Ela então deu à luz seu irmão Abel. Abel tornou-se pastor de ovelhas e Caim lavrador da terra.
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English · Jewish English Torah
Again she gave birth, to Cain's brother Abel. Abel became a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
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English · Modernized Tanakh - Based on JPS 1917, Edited by Adam Cohn
And again she bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
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עברית · Tanach with Text Only
ותסף ללדת את אחיו את הבל ויהי הבל רעה צאן וקין היה עבד אדמה
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עברית · Tanach with Nikkud
וַתֹּסֶף לָלֶדֶת אֶת־אָחִיו אֶת־הָבֶל וַיְהִי־הֶבֶל רֹעֵה צֹאן וְקַיִן הָיָה עֹבֵד אֲדָמָה׃
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ייִדיש · Yehoyesh's Yiddish Tanakh Translation [yi]
און זי האָט װידער געבאָרן – זײַן ברודער הֶבלען. און הֶבל איז געװען אַ פּאַסטוך פֿון שאָף, און קַיִן איז געװען אַן ערדאַרבעטער.
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Deutsch · Der Pentateuch, übersetzt und erläutert von Samson Raphael Hirsch. Frankfurt am Main, 1867-1878 [de]
Sie gebar ferner seinen Bruder, den Hebel. Hebel ward ein Schafhirte, Kajin aber war ein Ackerbauer.
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Esperanto · La Malnova Testamento, L.L.Zamenhof [eo]
Kaj plue ŝi naskis lian fraton Habel. Kaj Habel fariĝis ŝafpaŝtisto, kaj Kain fariĝis terlaboristo.
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Italiano · Il Pentateuco. Traduzione italiana di Samuel David Luzzatto, 1872 [it]
Indi partorì nuovamente suo fratello Abele. Abele fu pastore di bestiame minuto, e Caino fu agricoltore.
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Polski · Bible in Polish, trans. Izaak Cylkow, 1841 - 1908 [pl]
I urodziła jeszcze brata jego, Hebla; i był Hebel pasterzem trzód, a Kain był uprawiaczem roli.
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Commentaires sur Genèse 4:2
Rashi
עברית
רועה צאן. לפי שנתקללה האדמה, פירש לו מעבודתה (מדרש אגדה):
Rashi Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 · Licence: CC-BY · Commentaire complet sur Sefaria
Targum Jonathan
English
And she added to bear from her husband Adam his twin, even Habel. And Habel was a shepherd of the flock, but Kain was a man working in the earth.
The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862 · Licence: Public Domain · Commentaire complet sur Sefaria
Sforno
English
ויהי הבל רועה צאן, Hevel chose this vocation as it required more intelligence and involved one’s mental activities more that farming.
וקין היה עובד אדמה, as a result of each having his own vocation, they each brought different offerings to G’d.
Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash · Licence: CC-BY · Commentaire complet sur Sefaria
Radak (David Kimhi)
English
ותוסף ללדת את אחיו את הבל, the construction of ותוסף ללדת instead of ותהר עוד ותלד, “she again became pregnant and gave birth,” supports the words of our sages in Bereshit Rabbah 22,2 that the two brothers Kayin and Hevel were born as twins. The birth was additional, not the pregnancy. Our sages added further that not only were these two brothers born as twins, but that a twin sister was born at the same time to each of them. This also is in line with a statement by Rabbi Eleazar ben Azaryah in the same Midrash that on that day three miracles occurred. 1) Adam and Chavah had been created on that day. 2) They had engaged in marital intercourse on that same day. 3) They produced twin children on that same day.
Rabbi Yehoshua ben Korchoh phrased it as follows: “2 human beings united on the bed and eight descended from the bed.” He referred to Kayin and his twin sister and Hevel with two twin sisters. [in my count this makes only 7. Actually, in my version of Bereshit Rabbah, it says that “seven” descended from that bed. Ed.] The Torah fails to mention why Chavah called her second son Hevel. [In fact, the Torah does not say that it was Chavah who named Hevel. Ed.]
There is nothing unusual in the Torah not providing the reason for the name Hevel, as there are hundreds of names which have not been explained in the Torah. None of the names of the people in the generations between Sheth and Noach have been explained. Perhaps, the reason why Chavah called the second son Hevel is an allusion to Psalms 62,10 כי הבל בני אדם כזב בני איש, “men are mere breath; mortals illusion.” Perhaps Chavah expressed her realisation that even the good found in this material world may prove short-lived, illusory, as her brief sojourn in Gan Eden had taught her. Seeing that both her husband’s and her own life had become very difficult compared to what it had been like, she showed that she had assimilated this truth as being something she had to bequeath to her offspring now that she had children. It is immaterial in this connection if Hevel was named by her or by her husband.
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