Am I my brother's keeper?
"Am I my brother's keeper?" is a saying from the Bible. It comes from the story of Cain and Abel: After Cain murdered his brother Abel, God asked him where his brother was, and Cain answered: "I know not; am I my brother's keeper?"[1] These words came into the English language through William Tyndale and his translation of the Bible into English.[2]
The story is in Judaism and Christianity. It shows not only Cain's wrongness in not looking after his brother's well-being, but his hiding of the terrible crime of fratricide.[3]
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- ↑ Vermès, Géza (1975). Post-Biblical Jewish Studies. Brill Archive. ISBN 978-90-04-04160-8.
- ↑ Teems, David (2 January 2012). Tyndale: The Man Who Gave God an English Voice. Thomas Nelson. p. 209. ISBN 978-1-59555-414-7.
- ↑ Hirsch, Eric Donald; Rowland, William G.; Stanford, Michael (2004). The New First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: what your child needs to know. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 77. ISBN 978-0-618-40853-5.