God prefers the offering of Abel, and as a result, Cain is distressed and jealous to the point of murder.

上帝更喜欢亚伯的献祭，结果，该隐痛苦和嫉妒到了起杀心的地步。

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Abel is not mentioned in the Old Testament except in Genesis 4. St. Augustine makes him as one who loves ideas of justification, and Cain a man of nature.

旧约里并没有提到亚伯，除了在创四中，圣奥古斯丁将他塑造为一个热爱公正思想的人，而该隐是一个有天性的人。

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Also, anoint Jehu son of Nimshi king over Israel, and anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel Meholah to succeed you as prophet.

又膏宁示的孙子耶户作以色列王，并膏亚伯米何拉人沙法的儿子以利沙作先知接续你。

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Even such Cain-and-Abel types as Raymond Hood, a hard-drinking visionary architect, and John Todd, the authoritarian teetotaller that Rockefeller hired as his chief developer, became good business buddies.

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To continue the interpretation, the story of Cain and Abel may be taken as an illustration of the zero-sum game of primogeniture, as well as an allegory for the slaughter of nomadic pasturage by urban agriculture.

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