Genesis 4:8

And Cain talked with Abel his brother.

The conversation is not related, but we can judge that it was. complaint and. quarrel, the first religious controversy on record, and caused, as all others have been, by departing from the command of the Lord.

When they were in the field.

His hard words only made his, anger deeper, until at last he lost all command of himself and slew his brother as they were in the field. Thus it often is. Many. man talks himself into. rage until he is ready for the most violent deeds.

Slew him.

The first death recorded in the history of our race was not from old age or sickness, but was. murder, the murder of. brother. Sin did its worst in the first dread fruit of death it bore. As Cain had never seen. human death before he may have not been aware of the consequences of his own act. It is supposed by many, from Genesis 4:24, that this murder occurred just before the birth of Seth, about 130 years after the creation of man.